Saturday 28 July 2012

Ovaries Do Produce New Eggs in Adulthood



A new study has found that contrary to popular belief, ovaries do produce new eggs, or oocytes, during adulthood. The notion of a "biological clock" in women arises from the fact that oocytes progressively decline in number as females get older, along with a decades-old dogmatic view that oocytes cannot be renewed in mammals after birth. After careful assessment of data from a recent study published in iPLoS Genetics/I, scientists from Massachusetts General ...





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