More than the basket you’re born with: Women can make more eggs [video]
Posted by staff / February 26, 2012
Over the last few decades, it’s become accepted fact that women get one basket of eggs at birth and that’s that, but those crazy ovaries have a few more surprises in store.
It turns out that women in the reproductive time of life have ovarian stem cells, which can produce new eggs capable of being fertilized, as this video from Nature Medicine explains. Thanks to Jonathan Tilly and team for an ego boost for the girls down there!
Full story at Scientific American.
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