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Transplanted ovaries adjust to the recipient’s biological age
Transplanted ovaries appear to take on the age of their recipients’ bodies. When young mice received ovaries from animals that were past their natural fertility window, the young mice gave birth to healthy offspring.
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Transplanted ovaries appear to take on the age of their recipients’ bodies. When young mice received ovaries from animals that were past their natural fertility window, the young mice gave birth to healthy offspring. This suggests the younger bodies lowered the molecular age of the older ovaries. Transplanting younger ovaries into older mice also boosted the animals’ overall health , adding to the evidence that ovaries play a greater role in ageing and physiology than we realised.
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