No more eggs for me, thanks

OH, science – what have you done now? The University of Edinburgh has uncovered evidence that the human ovary may be able to grow new eggs in adulthood. Usually women are born with all the eggs they’re ever going to get and, once they’re gone, that’s your lot (these are the technical terms). Progress is all very well and it would be great if we could solve infertility. But the female reproductive lifespan becoming infinite? Sounds exhausting. And just when some of us were looking forward to shutting up shop. Thanks a lot. rachel Johnson is away