Instead, doctors retrieve immature eggs using only one or two injections, then use living cells that mimic ovarian cells to mature them in a lab. It has the potential to ease a plethora of conditions associated with ageing in women, including cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis. Ovarian ageing is part of the reason women outlive men but spend more years in poor health than men do, she said. Even as the mice in the study were dying, she read, their ovarian cells remained young and plentiful. “No one was working on ovarian ageing,” she said.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 02, 2026 10:02 UTC