Childs, Andrew (2025) Endless eggs: is female fertility finite? In: University of Cumbria Menopause Mystery Series, 3 July 2025, Online. (Unpublished) Full text not available from this repository.
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Part of the University of Cumbria Menopause Mystery Series. Received wisdom says that women are born with all of the eggs they’ll ever have, and that no new eggs are made after birth. When the supply of eggs in the ovary runs low, the menopause occurs, seemingly putting a limit on female fertile lifespan. But is there really a limit to reproductive capacity in women, and if so, might we be able to overcome it? In this talk, we’ll look at how the initial stock of eggs are made in the developing ovary during fetal life, and consider controversial new work suggesting the supply of eggs may not be as fixed as first thought.
Dr Andrew Childs is Principal Lecturer and Head of Medical Sciences and Assessments at The Pears Cumbria School of Medicine. Before moving north, Andrew was a member of the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology at Imperial College London, where he led a team investigating how communication between cells in the ovary (and testis) controls the function of these organs, and how disruption of this dialogue can impact fertility. The Pears Cumbria School of Medicine is a medical school in Carlisle, Cumbria, England, which is a partnership between the University of Cumbria and Imperial College London, established with support from the Pears Foundation.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture) |
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| Departments: | Institute of Health > Medical Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Anna Lupton |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jul 2025 09:04 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jul 2025 09:04 |
| URI: | https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/8939 |
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