Repowering the ovary

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have devised a protocol to identify and isolate a population of human germline stem cells that give rise to viable oocytes.¹ Although reports in the general media focused on using the cells to create a frozen source of potential oocytes, the unreported story is that the oocyte precursor cells can be manipulated to provide multiple opportunities for actually restoring fertility.

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