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Long-Held Tenet on Women's Fertility in Question

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Sunday, April 12, 2009 | 0 comments

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Sunday, April 12, 2009 - Scientists have produced strong new evidence challenging one of the most fundamental assumptions in biology: that female mammals, including women, are born with all the eggs they will ever have.

In a provocative set of experiments involving mice, Chinese researchers have shown for the first time that an adult mammal can harbor primitive cells in her ovaries that can become new eggs and produce healthy offspring, they reported today.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/12/AR2009041200967.html

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