What if you were a woman who was having trouble getting pregnant and your doctor told you there was a way he could “freshen up” your eggs using mitochondria from some of your other eggs to “replace that lost energy”? Yes, this reality exists—in Canada.
A story by way of NPR and not Lois Lowry explains. The Augment Treatment from OvaScience (“Through extraordinary innovation, OvaScience seeks to transform the world’s understanding of a woman’s biology and empower women worldwide”) claims “to improve a patient’s egg health” by taking eggs that might need a little boost because they’re too old, and using mitochondria from a woman’s immature egg cells to “supplement the existing mitochondria” in their fully-developed eggs.
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