Breaking new ground on the ovary construction project

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With fits and starts for nearly 13 years now, prospects of making an “artificial” or “synthetic” or “prosthetic” human ovary have waxed and waned through the stem cell and regenerative medicine hallways— not surprisingly greeted—to the mixed reactions expected of a three-ring circus. After all, over and above offering some much needed assistance to women whose ovarian function comes to an abrupt and premature end, what the aforementioned construction project could portend is an ever-expanding domain for extending human fecundity into the later decades of a somatic existence detached from traditional forms of reproduction. Sounds a bit Orwellian, does it not? …