Turning back the clock on menopause
Medscape report that scientists now claim that menopause might be “preventable”.
According to Dr. Jonathon Tilly’s keynote address to North American Menopause Society (NAMS) 22nd Annual Meeting entitled”Ovarian Aging: Can Science Turn Back the Clock?”, the concept of the biological clock in which a woman’s egg supply becomes depleted over time might be reversible.
Based on experiments with mice, he suggests that a woman’s ovarian pool could possibly be replenished by implanting human oogonial stem cells that generate new germ cells and new oocytes in adult ovary tissue.
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