PUT female mice on a diet, and they produce more healthy eggs as they age. Starved worms put reproduction on hold. These surprising discoveries could one day lead to new ways to help older women have children.
and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School in Boston reduced the calorie intake of adult female mice by 40 per cent. By the time the mice were one year old, ancient in mouse reproductive terms, their eggs had fewer abnormal chromosomes than those of mice that ate what they liked. Abnormalities in eggs up the risk of miscarriage and birth…
