Ovary banking future looking rosy
North American scientists have, for the first time, successfully frozen, thawed and transplanted whole rat ovaries. The success, reported in a letter to Nature, could mean that women undergoing chemotherapy treatment, which usually renders them sterile, can have their fertility restored after treatment. The team, based at two hospitals in...
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Ovary banking for career women?
by Juliet Tizzard
Professor Roger Gosden, the scientist seeking to find methods for restoring female fertility in cancer survivors, must be getting very used to allegations that he is out to change the face of human reproduction. His work in ovarian tissue transplants has been in and out of the media over the...