Study Suggests Way To Create New Eggs In Women

Study Suggests Way To Create New Eggs In Women : Shots - Health Blog : NPR: In 2004, Jonathan Tilly shocked the scientific world when he claimed he had found primitive "stem" cells hiding in the ovaries of adult female mice that could generate new eggs. That raised the possibility that it might be true for women as well.

But that claim was challenged by other scientists. And Tilly had only found the cells in mice. No one knew whether humans had them, too. In a series of experiments being published in the March issue of the journal Nature Medicine, Tilly and his colleagues say they have proved young adult women have the same cells.

Not everyone thinks the focus on enabling women to have children late in life is necessarily a good idea. "What are we creating as a world? We're creating as a world one in which it's increasingly hard for people to have children when they're young, and then saying, 'But wait, we have solutions, technology — we can do it when you're older,'" said Barbara Katz Rothman, a sociologist at the City University of New York. "And that's the part that disturbs me."