{"id":32420,"date":"2016-12-05T20:47:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T04:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/infertility-breakthrough-as-cancer-drug-sparks-growth-of-new-eggs-in-astonishing-discovery"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:59:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:59:59","slug":"infertility-breakthrough-as-cancer-drug-sparks-growth-of-new-eggs-in-astonishing-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/infertility-breakthrough-as-cancer-drug-sparks-growth-of-new-eggs-in-astonishing-discovery","title":{"rendered":"Infertility breakthrough as cancer drug sparks growth of new eggs in \u2018astonishing\u2019 discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/infertility-breakthrough-as-cancer-drug-sparks-growth-of-new-eggs-in-astonishing-discovery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Infertile women have been offered new hope after scientists found that a common cancer drug triggers the development of new eggs, an outcome which was previously thought to be impossible.<\/p>\n<p>In a discovery hailed as \u201castonishing\u201d, researchers at the University of Edinburgh proved it is possible to reverse the clock and coax the ovaries back into a pre-pubescent state where they begin to produce new eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Women are born with all their eggs, which is why conceiving becomes harder with age, because the eggs grow old, become damaged and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/science\/science-news\/12008340\/New-fertility-test-warns-women-if-they-are-running-out-eggs.html\">eventually run out entirely<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/12\/06\/infertility-breakthrough-cancer-drug-sparks-growth-new-eggs\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/12\/06\/infertility-br...-new-eggs\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infertile women have been offered new hope after scientists found that a common cancer drug triggers the development of new eggs, an outcome which was previously thought to be impossible. In a discovery hailed as \u201castonishing\u201d, researchers at the University of Edinburgh proved it is possible to reverse the clock and coax the ovaries back [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65653,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32420\/revisions\/65653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}