This week's BioNews features a story that has preoccupied British newspapers during the past week: that ovarian tissue that has been in frozen storage can be returned to its owner to restore her fertility. That's the dull version of events. The headline grabber is that the menopause has been reversed...
Scientists have transplanted ovarian tissue into a woman for the first time. In a procedure that had only been carried out in animals, ovarian tissue, which had previously been removed from a woman and frozen, was transplanted back into her body. The breakthrough was made by Professor Roger Gosden of...
A fertility test that measures the viability of eggs in a woman's ovaries may soon give women the ability to tell the time on the proverbial biological clock. The test is the result of six years of work by Oxford scientists who discovered that levels of the hormone, inhibin B...
This week's BioNews includes news that three British hospitals will begin offering the option of ovarian tissue freezing to women or girls undergoing chemotherapy treatment. Because chemotherapy almost always destroys fertility, the ovarian tissue is harvested before treatment in the hope that when it is grafted back on at a...
Young girls suffering from cancer may be able to have radiation treatment without forfeiting their chance of having children in later life. The process of freezing ovarian tissue has so far only been used for research purposes but it will now be available at three hospitals in the UK - Glasgow...
Researchers at the University of Hawaii, who developed the first mouse clones last year using the Honolulu Technique, have reported the successful production of male mouse clones. Their report appears in the June issue of Nature Genetics. To date, all mammal clones produced from adult somatic cells are female, as...
Results of a long-term follow-up study of fertility drugs suggest that there is no excessive risk of breast and ovarian cancer in patients who have undergone fertility treatment. The study was conducted on fertility patients at the Soroka University Hospital in Beer-Sheeba in Israel between 1960 and 1984, and the...
Women undergoing in vitro fertilisation (IVF) could increase their chances of becoming pregnant if treated with low doses of aspirin, according to a study published in the May issue of Fertility and Sterility. Researchers at the CER Medical Institute in Buenos Aires, Argentina, compared a group of women who took...
A study has found that an experimental drug which normalises insulin use in the body could be the basis of a treatment for polycystic ovary syndrome, a common cause of infertility. Affecting between 5 and 10 percent of women of reproductive age, the condition leads to cyst filled ovaries and...
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