'Artificial ovary' could help women conceive after chemotherapy
by Ian Sample Science editor from Science | The Guardian on (#3T6CZ)
Development could allow women to have children after fertility-damaging treatments
Doctors have made an "artificial ovary" from human tissue and eggs in a bid to help women have children after cancer treatment and other therapies that can damage female fertility.
The team in Copenhagen showed that a lab-made ovary could keep human eggs alive for weeks at a time, raising hopes that the approach could one day help women have families after harsh treatments such as chemo- and radiotherapy.
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