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Researchers are working on actual real world experiments. Some doctors will take tiny strips of your olberian cortex out when you're youngereep them and re implant them as you grow older, with the idea that it will sort of jump star your ovary. Rachel says she is jus excited by all this, because she sees it is the first steps towards a whole new field of research.

There's an old story scientists tell about human ovaries: that they are ticking clocks that only lose eggs, never gain them. Now that story might be changing, opening the door to new treatments for infertility and menopause.

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