Reproductive medicine 2014: the year in review

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2014 has been significant year for JARG as more and more of our colleagues working in the ART and reproductive genetics areas are coming to realize our contributions to the practice and science behind reproductive medicine. This month alone we feature an up-to-date review on the genetics of Primary Ovarian Insufficiency by Labarta and colleagues continuing our series of reviews emphasizing the technological and academic foundations resulting from molecular genetics as we know it today. For some subjects frequenting the pages of JARG in 2014, the history of specialty areas such as fertility preservation are relatively speaking in their adolescence. In contrast, those stemming from the continued use of cryotechnology in human ARTs have roots spanning decades of investigation. To wit, it has been 65 years since the landmark publication of Polge and Hammond in Nature on the application of vitrification for the storage of equine sperm, and our readership will find this month a series of reports exemplifying the continued efforts of our colleagues as they refine and modify this technology for the benefit of infertility patients. While technologies as seasoned as vitrification will remain a mainstay in the practice of gamete, embryo, and tissue cryopreservation, evolving as needed, many of the more “youthful” items on our ART menus today will continue to flux in and out of style pending changes in the landscapes being etched by the “omics” generation. …