Researchers have discovered a pattern of proteins in women with endometriosis, a disease in which tissue that normally lines the uterus grows elsewhere in the body—for instance, on the ovaries, bladder, or bowel—often causing pain, infertility, or both. Keith Isaacson, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and Kevin Haigis, associate professor of pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, are quoted.
