Evidence suggests women's ovaries can grow new eggs
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Evidence suggests women's ovaries can grow new eggs
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Re: Evidence suggests women's ovaries can grow new eggs
#2This seems to be one of many studies done that keep hinting that ovaries may continue to produce eggs. That's pretty awesome news especially for young women who have had to undergo treatments that may have killed off eggs early on. I also wonder how long they continue to be made. For instance if someone had a genetic disease that was somehow overcome with, say, genetic modification in some future time would her future eggs also carry the updated genetics?
Re: Evidence suggests women's ovaries can grow new eggs
#3This seems to be one of many studies done that keep hinting that ovaries may continue to produce eggs. That's pretty awesome news especially for young women who have had to undergo treatments that may have killed off eggs early on. I also wonder how long they continue to be made. For instance if someone had a genetic disease that was somehow overcome with, say, genetic modification in some future time would her futur…
> If someone had a genetic disease that was somehow overcome with, say, genetic modification in some future time would her future eggs also carry the updated genetics?
The answer is almost certainly yes, if the cells used to create the gametes had their DNA modified.
The really interesting question is whether the epigenetic code changes in these cells. The discovery of epigenetics had huge implications in human development. If women are born with all of the eggs they will ever have, that would mean children are affected by the decisions made by their grandmother. If grandma lived through a famine, her grandchild might be predisposed to obesity due to epigenetic factors, regardless of what mom does.
Re: Evidence suggests women's ovaries can grow new eggs
#4This seems to be one of many studies done that keep hinting that ovaries may continue to produce eggs. That's pretty awesome news especially for young women who have had to undergo treatments that may have killed off eggs early on. I also wonder how long they continue to be made. For instance if someone had a genetic disease that was somehow overcome with, say, genetic modification in some future time would her futur…
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Re: Evidence suggests women's ovaries can grow new eggs
#5It continues to astound me how little we actually seem to know about anatomy, especially women's anatomy (hold the jokes, folks).
Re: Evidence suggests women's ovaries can grow new eggs
#6It continues to astound me how little we actually seem to know about anatomy, especially women's anatomy (hold the jokes, folks).
We can't know much about what we haven't bothered to seriously study for very long.
Re: Evidence suggests women's ovaries can grow new eggs
#7It continues to astound me how little we actually seem to know about anatomy, especially women's anatomy (hold the jokes, folks).
Yea, especially for common disorders like Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Endometriosis. We don't know why they happen and our treatments are surprisingly meager considering how many women are affected in total.
Re: Evidence suggests women's ovaries can grow new eggs
#8This seems to be one of many studies done that keep hinting that ovaries may continue to produce eggs. That's pretty awesome news especially for young women who have had to undergo treatments that may have killed off eggs early on. I also wonder how long they continue to be made. For instance if someone had a genetic disease that was somehow overcome with, say, genetic modification in some future time would her futur…
> If someone had a genetic disease that was somehow overcome with, say, genetic modification in some future time would her future eggs also carry the updated genetics? The answer is almost certainly yes, if the cells used to create the gametes had their DNA modified. The really interesting question is whether the epigenetic code changes in these cells. The discovery of epigenetics had huge implications in human devel…
What do you mean by "epigenetic code"? Epigenetic means not encoded in DNA. Heritability is hotly debated (and anything positive in that area tends to be overstated in the media).
Wiki has a few links on contested terms and taking caution vs enthusiasm of eg Chopra. There have also been several stories like this http://epgntxeinstein.tumblr.com/post/127416455028/over-inte... over the last months.
Re: Evidence suggests women's ovaries can grow new eggs
#9It continues to astound me how little we actually seem to know about anatomy, especially women's anatomy (hold the jokes, folks).
Yea, especially for common disorders like Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Endometriosis. We don't know why they happen and our treatments are surprisingly meager considering how many women are affected in total.
Then there was that huge study that showed the birth control pill causes loss of sex drive and depression[0].
[0]https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfr...
Re: Evidence suggests women's ovaries can grow new eggs
#10This seems to be one of many studies done that keep hinting that ovaries may continue to produce eggs. That's pretty awesome news especially for young women who have had to undergo treatments that may have killed off eggs early on. I also wonder how long they continue to be made. For instance if someone had a genetic disease that was somehow overcome with, say, genetic modification in some future time would her futur…
Humans are the genetic disease that limits egg production. Other mammals don't have this "feature", so it is likely it is a suppressed gene that could be re-expressed. Although to your question about if it can be done in someone already living, that would be interesting indeed, but a different technique than re-expressing a gene, more like a workaround.