Understanding ageing by studying reproduction benefits
Monday, November 22, 2010 - 11:02
in Biology & Nature
Do examples of rejuvenation exist in nature? Yes, during reproduction! For the first time, a team from the Laboratoire de Biologie Moleculaire de la Cellule at CNRS (France) has managed to visualize, in the model organism C. elegans, the sudden "rejuvenation" of oocytes just before fertilization. Published in the journal Aging Cell, this work opens new avenues for understanding ageing and the diseases that are associated with it.