“Until now, we tended to consider menopause the end of the ovary’s reproductive function,” said Marta Melé, the director of the study and a lead researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, in a press release. “However, our results show that it acts as a turning point that profoundly reorganizes other organs and tissues of the reproductive system, and allow us to identify the genes and molecular processes that could be behind these changes.”
