Until about 2004, most scientists believed that women were born with all the reproductive eggs they would have for the rest of their lives. Then a scientist named Jonathan Tilly published research that claimed women might actually replenish their supply of eggs throughout their lives.
Elizabeth Comeau, born in 1981 from in-vitro fertilisation, was America’s first test-tube baby. Having recently become a mother herself, she wrote a touching article about her own life as a scientific first. Check it out at the Boston Globe.