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Summary

a controversial fertility company called OvaScience is concerned about a persistent mystery in human biology, why eggs fail and palpable hope we can do something about it. The company offers a new treatment, called BOOST, depending on what he considers egg precursor cells found in a woman's ovaries. INCREASE, which costs up to $ 25,000, as well as thousands more in clinic fees and about $ 25,000 for the in vitro fertilization cycle (IVF) to accompany him, based on mitochondrial precursor cells putative egg to stimulate the success of IVF. Seventeen babies were born to date. The company, which has attracted hundreds of millions of dollars from investors, is ready to introduce a second treatment. But many scientists are skeptical that the egg precursor cells actually exist.

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