Egg stem cells do not exist

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Updated At : 01:32 PM Mar 03, 2020 IST

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Many couples experience involuntary childlessness and seek treatment at fertility clinics and to improve outcomes for such couples, a significant study has revealed that the hotly debated egg stem cells do not exist in human overy.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden analysed all cell types in the human ovary to reach this conclusion.

The new study substantiates previously reported findings from animal studies – that egg stem cells do not exist.

Instead, these are so-called perivascular cells, said the study published in Nature Communications.

—IANS

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