CLAIMS that a potentially limitless supply of human eggs can be grown outside the body from cells scraped off the surface of a woman’s ovary have been greeted with scepticism.
Growing eggs outside the body has long been an aim of fertility doctors. For starters, it might spare women undergoing IVF the risky and painful process of egg collection, which yields only a few eggs per cycle. It might also enable women to guarantee their future fertility by freezing ovarian tissue when they are young.
But no one has been able to grow eggs in the lab, even from slices…
