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"Women might replenish their eggs"

http://gizmodo.com/5888697/women-might-replenish-their-eggs-like-men-do-sperm/all

"Until about 2004, most scientists believed that women were born with all the reproductive eggs they would have for the rest of their lives. Then a scientist named Jonathan Tilly published research that claimed women might actually replenish their supply of eggs throughout their lives.

It was shocking. The previous school of thought was that women's eggs became old and deteriorated over time until their supply was exhausted and menopause set in. If Tilly's findings were true, it would completely change the way we looked at fertility and menopause"

Anyone else read about this, I've never seen it before. There are new claims that women might replenish their eggs from stem cells in their own bone marrow and this may be why women can and do produce babies later in life - crikey!

Make an ovulation ticker

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