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Focus on Reproductive Biology
- Focus issue:
- November 2008 Volume 14, No 11
Nature Medicine 14, 1190 - 1191 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm1108-1190
Making eggs: is it now or later?
Teresa K Woodruff1
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Teresa K. Woodruff is the Watkins Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 303 East Superior, Lurie 10-117, Chicago, Illinois 60611-3015, USA.
e-mail: tkw@northwestern.edu
Abstract
Although it has been thought that female mammals develop all the eggs they will ever have by the time they are born, new research suggesting otherwise has now sparked a debate.
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