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That is Richard Jacobs.

Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast,

now part of the Finding Genius Podcast Podcasts

Foundation.

My guest today is Marsha Inhorn, PhD.

She's the William Landman junior professor of anthropology and international affairs at Yale University. We're going to talk about a topic called

Motherhood on Ice, The Mating Gap, and why women freeze their eggs. So welcome, Marshall, thank you for coming.

Thank you. I'm very happy to be here with you.

Yeah, tell me a bit about your past and how you got to work on this area of science you're working on right now.

Yeah, so I'm a medical anthropologist, which means that I study health issues in living populations and I've been working on reproductive health for a very long time

particularly the problem of infertility and all of the sort of technologies the reproductive technologies that have been developed over the years

to help people who are trying to become pregnant, people facing difficulties.

And you know, over time this brought me to the topic of egg-freezing. The technical name is O-O-Site cryopreservation

through a process of flash freezing of eggs called vitrification. And it's a pretty new technology.

It's, it was developed, you know, in the

aunts and has been available for women since the year 2012 in the United States.

So it's a 10-year-old technology and because I study

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