April 18, 2012
About how far back can a standard genetic test trace family lineage and how accurate will the results be the further back they go? How good are they at telling how related two people are?
March 29, 2012 We all learned in school that a woman is born with all of the eggs she'll ever have. Well, turns out the textbooks were wrong.
A new study published just last month shows that women's ovaries still have cells that can make new eggs. These cells are a type of those famous stem cells you've undoubtedly heard about in the news.
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