Turning back the clock: Fasting prolongs reproductive life span
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 13:35
in Biology & Nature
Scientific dogma has long asserted that females are born with their entire lifetime’s supply of eggs, and once they’re gone, they’re gone. New findings by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, published online Aug. 27 in Science, suggest that in nematode worms, at least, this does not hold true.