Author Archives: Roger Gosden

About Roger Gosden

A British/ Canadian/ American scientist specializing in reproduction & embryology whose career spanned from Cambridge to Cornell's Weill Medical College in NYC. Married to Lucinda Veeck, the embryologist for the first successful IVF team in America. They retired to Virginia, where he became a master naturalist and writer affiliated with William & Mary. He also writes on Substack at What’s Hot in Fertility? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Gosden

Room for a Womb – a transplant story

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Roger Gosden

It seems particularly fitting to congratulate a Swedish colleague who announced the world’s first successful uterine transplant the same week that the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine is announced from Stockholm. Not that the transplant will earn him the … Continue reading →

Posted in Biomedical, Other | Tagged In Vitro Fertilization, Mats Brannstrom, medical ethics, Mullerian agenesis, ovarian transplant, Sherman Silber, surrogacy, uterine transplant | Comments Off

A Grain of Experience

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Roger Gosden

After another dietary study giving refined carbohydrates a bad name and confirming that saturated fat is good for us, a post in praise of bread seems poor timing. I was already coming round to thinking the official doctrine over the … Continue reading →

Posted in Other | Tagged bread recipe, breadmaking, einkorn flout, Natufian culture, Raymond Calvel, wheat gluten allergy | 2 Comments

Voice of the Lobster

Posted on August 16, 2014 by Roger Gosden

There was one lobster left in the tank when I left the restaurant. I felt sorry for the lonesome crustacean, but sadder for its late companions whose carapaces lay empty on customers’ plates. I had no reason to feel guilty because … Continue reading →

Posted in Animalia, Other | Tagged Alice in Wonderland, animal cruelty, Lewis Carroll, lobster thermidor, Monty Python, pain physiology, Peter Singer, Rene Descartes, spam meat | Comments Off

Here Be Dragons

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Roger Gosden

Butterfly numbers are down this year in Tidewater Virginia. Since 1999 when local naturalists began annual surveys there have been large fluctuations from year-to-year, but the numbers recorded this year on a hot July day were almost half the reckoning … Continue reading →

Posted in Animalia | Tagged butterfly, Charles Elton, Dragonfly, Dragons, lemmings, Mary Pickford, snowy owls | Comments Off

Badger Bother

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Roger Gosden

Some years ago while following a wide trail through a Yorkshire wood I came across a bunch of roughnecks in muddy boots who were offloading shovels and pickaxes from the back of a rusty van. Terriers were barking furiously in … Continue reading →