Most mutations in C. elegans affect both life span and reproduction, which had led scientists to believe that body cells and female
reproductive cells aged according to the same clock.
Not exact matches
At Key Stage 3 (
age 11 to 13 +, Years 7 to 9) schools have to teach: that fertilisation in humans and flowering plants is the fusion of a male and a female
cell; about the physical and emotional changes that take place during adolescence; about the human
reproductive system, including the menstrual cycle and fertilization; how the foetus develops in the uterus, including the role of the placenta.
Even though the
reproductive age for humans is around 15 — 45 years old, the precursor
cells that go on to produce human eggs or sperm are formed much earlier, when the fertilized egg grows into a tiny ball of
cells in the mother's womb.
Sperm and egg from skin
cells eventually might be used for
reproductive purposes, enabling parenthood at any
age using tissue from either the living or dead.
reproductive aging, oocyte dysfunction, telomeres, meiosis, stem
cells, oocytes, genome integrity, stem
cell biology
JAX has particular strengths in research focused on understanding
aging, behavior and addiction, computational biology, cancer, development and disease, gene expression, genetics and genomics, immunology and hematology, metabolism, microbiome, neuroscience,
reproductive biology, statistical and population genetics, stem
cells, systems biology, and translational medicine.
Aging can generally be defined as a progressive decline in the efficiency of biochemical and physiological processes after the
reproductive phase of life.2 From one birthday to the next we are unaware of the fact that our
cells, organs and bones are slowly losing some of their function.
In females of
reproductive age, the most rapidly growing
cells are the ovaries, so the hormonal environment is encouraging excessive growth of these cysts in the ovaries.