Words Matter…So, Let’s Talk About Vaginas

I want to talk about how people talk about vaginas… Or, more specifically, how people have been talking about four particular vaginas over the course of the past month or so. For those of you who know me, or are familiar with my research, this will not be a surprise; after all, I write about technological advances in gynecology, so when the news broke in April that a research team at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine had successfully implanted four vaginas grown in their lab from patients’ own cells, you can bet that I took notice.