Relevant and irrelevant translational discovery and male infertility: the case of the Y chromosome and more!

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Finger-pointing and blame-passing retain the distinction as favorite pastimes of constituencies whose members beg to proffer opinions of a contrasting or debatable character. While widely recognized as the sum and substance of political discourse, assigning fault and flaw in medical disciplines spans the bench-to-bedside mentality upon which meaningful, and useless, discoveries are served up to members of the biomedical research community intent on identifying new cures or treatments for human disease, and/or the mechanistic bases of the complex biological processes underlying disease etiology. The evolution of ARTs for manipulating reproductive performance in animals, including we hominids, will continue the blame game as long as betterments and refinements are sought out by the clinicians and scientists vested in a deeper understanding of reproductive physiology. …