Scientists 3-D Print Mouse Ovaries That Actually Make Babies
Scientists 3-D Print Mouse Ovaries That Actually Make Babies
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 19, 20175m 51s
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Show Notes
Not all girls grow up to be mothers. Sometimes they choose not to be, and sometimes circumstances take those choices away. A superfluity of cancers and genetic diseases can destroy women’s ovaries. Or treatments like radiation—used to save a woman’s life—can render those egg-producing organs useless. Ovaries also mediate female hormones. Without them, young patients might never go through puberty; grown women could enter menopause early.
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