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The Incredible Plan To Restore A Woman’s Fertility And Defy The Limits Of Nature
Over the course of seven years, Sezenia Tzeni endured seven rounds of in vitro fertilisation. Typically, women undergo only three or four IVF treatments before either getting pregnant or giving up. But for Tzeni and her husband, conceiving a child was more important than almost anything else.
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Pomegranates Yield Promising Anti-Ageing Compound
A compound found within pomegranates, when transformed by bacteria in the gut, has been shown to rejuvenate cellular function and reverse the effects of ageing on muscles, at least in worms and rodents. On their own, pomegranates may not confer these life-extending qualities — but the discovery could lead to powerful anti-ageing medicines.
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Women Aren’t The Only Ones With A ‘Biological Clock’ — Men Lose Fertility As They Age, Too
Women know that menopause can put a “sell by” date on getting pregnant, but common wisdom says that men retain much of their fertility well into old age. That common wisdom is wrong.
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Morgan Freeman Becomes E.T. And Other Age-Prediction Software Horrors
Yesterday, we got a look at a fun (if creepy) little bit of tech that claims to give us a peek at our grizzled, age-stricken faces in 20 years’ time. What we got was certainly… something. So we decided to put the Future Self software to the real test, by inputting celebrities as they were…