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...conventional story of female fertility has never made a whole lot of sense. A few months before the birth of a little girl, textbooks have said for 50 years, her ovaries contain about 1 million egg cells each--all that she will ever have. Those numbers only go down as eggs deteriorate or get washed out of the body during menstruation. Finally, when a woman is about 50, they're essentially gone, signaling the hormonal changes known as menopause. The story fits the evidence. Autopsies prove that women have lots of eggs to start with and that the number steadily...
Professor and Director of Reproductive Biology at the Yale Laboratory of Reproductive Biology Harold R. Behrman called Tilly’s work a “very significant” find that prompts a new look at the assumptions about human egg generation. “The dogma has been that mammalian eggs don’t regenerate after birth,” Behrman said...
...reproductive medicine and obstetrics and gynecology at Cornell’s Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility, recently announced that it is possible to freeze ovarian tissue for up to six months, replant it into a woman’s abdominal area and have it resume production of eggs. This finding has applications for women who are undergoing radiation treatment, which destroys egg cells...
...make the perfect boiled egg? Put the egg in cold water and bring it to the boil. My book sets out different times, depending on the size of the egg. Then again, if you go too far you just get a hard-boiled egg...
...write the original Margaret Fulton cookbook? I wrote it as a family reference book - so my husband could boil an egg if I was away, or my daughter could cook if we were out. I think it was a discovery for her, that when she tried to make something it really turned...