Study Suggests Way To Create New Eggs In Women
A series of experiments published in the journal Nature Medicine suggest young adult women have primitive stem cells that could generate new eggs. The findings are generating both excitement and...
View ArticleScientists Create Fertile Eggs From Mouse Stem Cells
For the first time, scientists have created fertile eggs and healthy offspring using embryonic stem cells. The experiments in mice raise the possibility of artificial egg production and new infertility...
View ArticleFreezing Eggs To Make Babies Later Moves Toward Mainstream
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine has concluded that freezing women's eggs to treat infertility should no longer be considered "experimental." The practice has long been controversial....
View ArticleChance To Pause Biological Clock With Ovarian Transplant Stirs Debate
The only women who have gotten pregnant with an ovarian transplant are cancer patients at great risk of losing their fertility. But a handful of doctors are now doing the procedure for patients trying...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Companies Add New Benefit For Women: Egg-Freezing
The addition of the benefit by Facebook and Apple comes as tech companies face mounting pressure to hire more women, but some warn it may increase pressure those employees feel to put off having kids.
View ArticleFertility Clinic Courts Controversy With Treatment That Recharges Eggs
The technique aims to rejuvenate a woman's eggs using mitochondria from cells extracted from her ovaries. A Toronto clinic's first births are due soon, and some doctors are worried about side effects.
View ArticleWomen Find A Fertility Test Isn't As Reliable As They'd Like
It's hard to predict how quickly a woman's fertility will decline and if she'll be a good candidate for egg freezing. But doctors try to figure that out with something called an ovarian reserve test.
View ArticleAdvance In Human Embryo Research Rekindles Ethical Debate
Scientists have been able to keep human embryos alive twice as long as before. The technique is reopening a debate over a rule limiting research on human embryos to 14 days.
View ArticleTwin Sisters Try To Get Pregnant With Ovaries They Froze In 2009
Each twin had an ovary removed and frozen in 2009, when they were in their 30s, in hopes of buying more time to get pregnant and have babies. But will the thawed, reimplanted ovaries work?
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