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#1 Feb 27 2012 at 9:40 AM Rating: Excellent
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This is sort of interesting as it's so contrary to popular beliefs.

Apparently, the whole deal about women having a finite number of eggs might be a myth. Researchers have found stem cells in the ovaries that can generate new eggs.

There's little evidence to suggest that this could help women who are infertile, but what it could do is postpone menopause - indefinitely.

I think if women have to keep dealing with a monthly period well into their fifties and beyond, the suicide rate of old ladies will sky-rocket.

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#2 Feb 27 2012 at 10:04 AM Rating: Excellent
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To make sure they were looking at the right cells, the scientists genetically engineered them to glow green.
I will not birth them, Sam I Am.
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#3 Feb 27 2012 at 11:33 AM Rating: Good
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To make sure they were looking at the right cells, the scientists genetically engineered them to glow green.
I will not birth them, Sam I Am.

good ole GFP
#4 Feb 27 2012 at 2:09 PM Rating: Decent
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Elinda wrote:
This is sort of interesting as it's so contrary to popular beliefs.

Apparently, the whole deal about women having a finite number of eggs might be a myth. Researchers have found stem cells in the ovaries that can generate new eggs.

There's little evidence to suggest that this could help women who are infertile, but what it could do is postpone menopause - indefinitely.

I think if women have to keep dealing with a monthly period well into their fifties and beyond, the suicide rate of old ladies will sky-rocket.

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Does this mean that women could possibly reliably conceive and give birth well into old age? Wonderful. Let's just squeeze another sub-generation into the world population.
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#5 Feb 27 2012 at 2:31 PM Rating: Good
I heard about this on the radio.

What is promising about it isn't so much for old ladies, but for women who waited til early middle age to try to have kids and who are running out of time. There are too few eggs and too many of them are damaged beyond repair. However, if you can generate a fresh batch of eggs from healthy tissue, you can use that for in vitro fertilization instead of giving the woman a ton of hormones to make her super fecund and them harvesting them, only to dump 90% of the embryos because you made too many of them.

Actually, cue the anti-choicers to start declaring ovarian stem cells as pre-humans. Smiley: lol
#6 Feb 27 2012 at 9:34 PM Rating: Good
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I think if women have to keep dealing with a monthly period well into their fifties and beyond, the suicide rate of old ladies men will sky-rocket.
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#7 Feb 27 2012 at 9:41 PM Rating: Excellent
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I think it's fair to say the over-50 suicide rate would skyrocket and leave it at that. Actually we can probably expand it to include murder, as well.
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#8 Feb 28 2012 at 10:17 AM Rating: Excellent
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Joph thought it would be funny the other day to tell our soon-to-be-teen that for his birthday he was getting another little brother. I don't who was more shocked, the birthday boy, or me. Motherhood at 35 is kicking my ***. At 50 I'll probably let this kid smoke pot in his room as long as he just leaves me the hell alone.

Also, I'm going to have a 15-year old at 50. Smiley: cry
#9 Feb 28 2012 at 1:26 PM Rating: Good
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Joph thought it would be funny the other day to tell our soon-to-be-teen that for his birthday he was getting another little brother. I don't who was more shocked, the birthday boy, or me. Motherhood at 35 is kicking my ***. At 50 I'll probably let this kid smoke pot in his room as long as he just leaves me the hell alone.

Also, I'm going to have a 15-year old at 50. Smiley: cry

Fifty is the new thirty-five. You'll be out snowboarding with this kid in fifteen years.

edit - congrats btw...Smiley: flowers



Edited, Feb 28th 2012 8:26pm by Elinda
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#10 Feb 28 2012 at 6:48 PM Rating: Excellent
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If you're congratulating on the phantom baby, she's not pregnant.

Or else my urologist and I are going to have to have a chat.
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#11 Feb 28 2012 at 8:48 PM Rating: Good
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If you're congratulating on the phantom baby, she's not pregnant.

Or else my urologist and I are going to have to have a chat.
Fooled me.

Should have an gurl though.
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#12 Feb 29 2012 at 9:30 AM Rating: Decent
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Jophiel wrote:
If you're congratulating on the phantom baby, she's not pregnant.

Or else my urologist and I are going to have to have a chat.

Spontaneous reattachment FTW!
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#13 Feb 29 2012 at 12:41 PM Rating: Good
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Debalic wrote:
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If you're congratulating on the phantom baby, she's not pregnant.

Or else my urologist and I are going to have to have a chat.

Spontaneous reattachment FTW!

They claim it can happen.

I recall my husband being instructed to return to the docs to give a ***** sample a couple months after his snippy-surgery to insure all sperm pathways had been properly terminated.

I don't think he ever did it though. Smiley: clown

Having to *** into a cup must be terribly uncomfortable.
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#14 Feb 29 2012 at 12:45 PM Rating: Excellent
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Elinda wrote:
Debalic wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
If you're congratulating on the phantom baby, she's not pregnant.

Or else my urologist and I are going to have to have a chat.

Spontaneous reattachment FTW!

They claim it can happen.



It can.

One of my good childhood friends got a new baby brother while we were in high-school. Mom had tubes removed (yes removed, not just tied) some 12 years prior. The doctor who did the surgery was a bit speechless when she faxed him a ultrasound photo. Smiley: lol
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