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The research points to a slower biological degradation or a certain resistance to aging in egg cells than often feared—complicating the prevailing narrative that fertility will inevitably plummet by a woman’s 30s in every case.
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Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
New variation emerges from reshuffling segments of DNA in sperm and egg cells, and from copying errors known as mutations.
—F.d. Flam, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
Traditionally, scientists have believed that telomere length is either a polygenic trait, controlled by multiple genes, or is passed directly to the offspring through parental sperm and egg cells.
—New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2025
The closest anyone has come to success for eggs has been very primitive human egg cells that are too immature to be fertilized.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 30 Sep. 2025
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Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
New variation emerges from reshuffling segments of DNA in sperm and egg cells, and from copying errors known as mutations.
—F.d. Flam, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
Traditionally, scientists have believed that telomere length is either a polygenic trait, controlled by multiple genes, or is passed directly to the offspring through parental sperm and egg cells.
—New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2025
The closest anyone has come to success for eggs has been very primitive human egg cells that are too immature to be fertilized.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Egg cell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/egg%20cell. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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