Turning back the clock: Fasting prolongs reproductive life span

Friday, August 28, 2009 - 23:47 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 Centre, published online 27 August in Science, suggest that in nematode worms, at least, this does not hold true...

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