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A radical new idea to speed up anti-aging research: Test ovaries, not mice
Hilary Brueck, Fri, November 22, 2024
Scientists have created an "atlas" of ovarian aging.
The atlas suggests ovaries are an untapped, rapid way to study human longevity treatments.
One researcher is testing antiaging drugs on ovaries, and she says supplements could be next.
"Yeast, worms, flies and mice, we already know how to make them live longer and healthier," Columbia University professor and geneticist Yousin Suh, lead author of the new study, told Business Insider. "Since aging occurs in the ovaries so much more rapidly, why don't we use ovaries as a very fast test platform for geroprotectors?"
Suh's new study goes deeper. It shows that ovarian aging is a great proxy for overall human aging at a molecular level — ovarian aging is just happening several decades earlier, and very rapidly.
