Princeton Researchers Who Have Identified Mechanism to Extend Egg Viability (IMAGE)

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Princeton Researchers Who Have Identified Mechanism to Extend Egg Viability

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Princeton University researchers have identified a drug that extends egg viability in worms and could theoretically extend women's fertility by three to six years. From left: Jasmine Ashraf, research associate; Cheng Shi, postdoctoral research associate and 2016 Ph.D. graduate; Rachel Kaletsky, associate research scholar; Coleen Murphy, professor of molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and director of the Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for Aging Research; William Keyes, research associate; Nicole Templeman, postdoctoral research fellow and first author. Not pictured: Shijing Luo, a 2012 Ph.D. graduate.

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Photo by Denise Applewhite, Princeton University

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