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MarkCharles

(2,261 posts) Thu Mar 1, 2012, 11:50 AM Mar 2012

Dogma Overturned: Women Can Produce New Eggs

A study led by Jonathan Tilly of the Massachusetts General Hospital overturns the decades-long idea that women are born with all the eggs they will ever have. It reports that women of reproductive age carry ovarian stem cells, meaning that they can produce new eggs.

Video here:

http://skepttv.tumblr.com/post/18552951582/dogma-overturned-women-can-produce-new-eggs

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Dogma Overturned: Women Can Produce New Eggs (Original Post) MarkCharles Mar 2012 OP

Gee, what a surprise. Warpy Mar 2012 #1

As a guy, I never thought about this, and... MarkCharles Mar 2012 #2

Maybe I'm not 101 years old after all. libinnyandia Mar 2012 #3

You don't look a day over..... MarkCharles Mar 2012 #4

This guy was on WGBH at 7 PM tonight MarkCharles Mar 2012 #5

Warpy

(111,277 posts)

1. Gee, what a surprise.

Reply to MarkCharles (Original post)

Thu Mar 1, 2012, 12:07 PM

Mar 2012

I think medical science has ASSumed too much about women's bodies and women's lives for far too long. Actual study will probably turn up a lot more than this.

The idea that we were born with a finite supply of immature ova has always bugged me. It's not how male gonads work and I doubted very sincerely it's how ovaries work.

MarkCharles

(2,261 posts)

2. As a guy, I never thought about this, and...

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 1, 2012, 12:16 PM

Mar 2012

even though I probably learned this in college biology class, I never gave it a thought, just as I never worried about running out of my .... well, you know.

Women, however, it appears from this discovery must have some sort of clinical intervention.