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Unlocking Secrets to Extend Fertility With Long-Lived Proteins


Max Planck researchers have discovered that extremely long-lived proteins in the ovary may keep mammalian egg cells healthy and preserve fertility for a long time. Female mammals – including humans – are born with all of their egg cells. Of a woman’s one to two million egg cells, about 400 mature

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