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You might one day mail used feminine products to a lab.

Endometriosis is a disease that causes the cells that line the uterus to start growing in other parts of the body. This can lead to excruciating pain for those affected but diagnosis can take more than a decade. These researchers are looking at period blood to learn about the disease and how to spot it faster.

Some researchers are challenging the conventional view that menstrual effluent is merely a waste product.

Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women of reproductive age in the U.S., according to ACOG.

Taylor Keefe(NEW YORK) -- March marks World Endometriosis Awareness Month dedicated to recognizing and advocating for the estimated 190 million women worldwide who suffer from endometriosis. Taylor Keefe was 13 years old when she first saw a gynecologist. "Every time I was on my period, I had no functionality. I would be bent over in pain for days at a time, screaming and crying," said Keefe, now a 26-year-old clinical mental health counselor in New Jersey. "After two years of mis...

>> Rachel E Gross, The New York Times Published: 27 Apr 2021 03:04 PM BdST Updated: 27 Apr 2021 03:04 PM BdST Linda Griffith, a professor of biological and mechanical engineering at MIT, and its director of the Center for Gynepathology Research, at her home in Cambridge, Mass, Oct 19, 2020. Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times In an undated image provided by Duncan Allison O’Boyle, Alex Brown, a postdoctoral researcher in tissue engine...