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« Moodstream from Getty Images lets you tune your head | Main | Video from the nest; America from RFK's funeral train » June 11, 2008Human ovulation photographed in living color
Ovulation moment caught on camera by a bystander, really. BBC: A human egg has been filmed in close-up emerging from the ovary for the first time, captured by chance during a routine operation.... I know I've felt a twinge -- a brief sharp pain -- and suspected I was ovulating, which may have given rise to the idea of an "explosive" release. These photos are more than fascinating. I wish they were larger -- you can't really see the egg inside its coating of translucent support cells. The idea that my body does this "without me" was strong in pregnancy, and here's the beginning of that process. The woman whose ovulation was photographed was not named. Dr. Donnez's pictures are to be published in Fertility and Sterility -- fertstert.org --- according to New Scientist, which first reported their existence. There are three more excellent photos at the link.
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