Podcast HackCan Ovaries Make New Eggs?By Unexplainable, Noam Hassenfeld, Byrd Pinkerton
In a Nutshell
In this August 2022 episode of Vox's Unexplainable podcast, reporter Byrd Pinkerton looks into new ovarian research that calls decades-old scientific assumptions into question.
Favorite Quote
When you have a simple narrative that seems to explain a body part really well … That really closes the lid on other explanations and other questions that could give you a ton more insight into those organs.
Rachel Gross
Introduction
In high school biology, you probably learned that babies are born with all the eggs they will ever have.
But what if this decades-old narrative surrounding ovaries and fertility was wrong, and human bodies could produce new eggs throughout life?
Unexplainable is a podcast from Vox that explores science's unanswered questions.
In this episode from August 2022, Unexplainable producer Byrd Pinkerton and reproductive health reporter Rachel Gross unpack the truths, mysteries, and new research surrounding ovaries and their eggs.
Here are the 3 key insights from this Hack
- 1.The biological narrative of the ovaries has been around since the 1950s
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