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Published online 1 July 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040628-18
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Could we defeat the menopause?
Mouse ovaries offer up secret of new egg cells.
From the 20th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, Berlin, Germany
Cells that are capable of making new eggs have been isolated from adult mouse ovaries. The finding supports an earlier suggestion that mammal ovaries could produce eggs throughout life, and shatters the dogma that women are born with a finite supply.
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