At the same time or afterward, an ovulation-stimulating medicine is used to trigger ovulation, with the goal of harvesting good-quality eggs on a predictable schedule.
Likewise, fishermen along the Mississippi River are harvesting eggs from wild paddlefish and hackleback.
The advantage, he said, is that it would be much easier to harvest eggs from the arm for in vitro fertilization.
Technicians harvest fertilized eggs from super-milkers yielding four times what average cows do, and implant them in "host" mothers, who then drop borrowed world-class calves.
Even so, it is common for locals to harvest eggs for personal or sale in local bars due to supposed aphrodisiac qualities.
They also likely harvested seabirds, eggs and feathers.
Only in the 1960s did commercial operations that either harvested eggs from the wild or bred alligators on-site begin to appear.
He would harvest eggs from the fetal ovaries, which would, of course, be genetically identical to the woman's eggs, if she had been able to make them.
For some cancers, like breast cancer, the potent hormonal stimulation needed to harvest eggs could further endanger a woman's health.