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...study, released last week by Dr. Jonathan Tilly of the Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, involves the discovery of germ stem cells in the ovaries of adult mice...
...existence of stem cells in mice, however, could indicate that menopause, or “mouse-opause,” as Tilly calls it, results not from the death of eggs, but from the gradual death of germ stem cells which produce these eggs...
This process is associated with aging in male mice as well. But, because every male has thousands of germ stem cells, as opposed to a female’s approximately 60, the decrease associated with aging is not sufficient to impair testicular functioning...
...existence of ovarian germ stem cells is known in flies and some fish and birds. Given his recent findings in mice, Tilly said, it would not be a stretch to believe that germ stem cells would have been an evolutionarily adaptive trait in human females as well...
...touch the hand. That is one of the first things you learn if you endeavor to learn anything about Donald Trump. Despite his reputation as America's most public--and publicized--billionaire, the germ-phobic Trump hates to shake hands. So I am taken aback when, in the reception room of his Trump Tower office, he proffers his mitt. "You look like a clean guy," he says. (Little does he know I have a 2-year-old at home sneezing up a day-care center's worth of cold viruses. Sorry, Donald...