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This Wisconsin researcher is taking fertility testing out of the lab

The pain and frustration of not being able to conceive is one Katie Brenner knows all too well. “When my husband and I first decided to have kids we were just so excited,” says Brenner, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It took a while and then it took even longer. As we got more and more worried and more and more stressed, each month would just stretch out.”