Science

Women Might Replenish Their Eggs Like Men Do Sperm

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.


August 9, 2011
Science

Creepy In-Vitro Fertilisation Using Eggs From A Dead Teenager

A desperate Israeli family won a court decision that lets them extract and freeze the eggs from their dead daughter. The teenage girl died unexpectedly last week after a car crash.


August 7, 2010
Science

First Test-Tube Baby Is Now A Mother Herself

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.