article_snippet: A controversial method to improve the health of an old egg is being used by a Massachusetts-based fertility company.
article_snippet: The firm, OvaScience, says The firm, OvaScience technique involves rejuvenating an egg's mitochondria, which are the tiny structures that create energy to run a cell.
article_snippet: The firm, OvaScience, says The firm, OvaScience technique involves rejuvenating an egg's mitochondria, which are the tiny structures that create energy to run a cell .
article_snippet: The technique, dubbed Augment, takes energy-producing mitochondria from a patient's own 'EggPC cells'.
article_snippet: The idea is that immature cells with their healthy mitochondria could rejuvenate ageing eggs.
article_snippet: The method, dubbed Augment, takes energy-producing mitochondria from a patient's own EggPC cells.
highlights_snippet: OvaScience says OvaScience has found a way to boost an egg's mitochondria .
  
highlights_snippet: These are inserted into the patient's mature eggs to rejuvenate These .
  