You should have a colonoscopy every 10 years starting at age 50. Alternatively, you may get a flexible sigmoidoscopy every five years, a double-contrast barium enema every five years or a CT colonography (virtual colonoscopy) every five years. However, a colonoscopy will be needed if any of those results are positive.
Jena Pincott explains that even after a mother gives birth, her babyâs cells remain inside her body â and work tiny wonders. In an excerpt from her book Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?, Pincott explains that pregnancy is really only the beginning for mother and baby cell-sharing.
What's more, scientists down the road could potentially use a woman's egg stem cells to create an unlimited supply of eggs, which could improve or even replace difficult fertility treatments. I don't want to give the idea that we can make a million eggs from a woman tomorrow, Tilly cautioned. But the future looks bright in providing women with more options to think about as they go through their lives.. A human egg surrounded by sperm, magnified 400 times (file image).