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Artificial Ovary Created with Three-dimensional Tissue Engineering
Posted by TheNonpareil on 9/29/10
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Artificial Ovary Created with Three-dimensional Tissue Engineering.
For the first time ever, scientists from Brown University in
Rhode Island have created in the laboratory an artificial ovary which
can function exactly like that of a woman ovary.
The study is published in the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics.
The researchers, led by Sandra Carson, have used a technique
called three-dimensional tissue engineering, this technique is using
cells from women of childbearing age.
The artificial ovary can accommodate the immature egg cells
until they are ready to be deposited in the womb.
This will allow women who have undergone heavy chemotherapy treatments that have damaged the reproductive system to open up new possibilities for conception.Before they receive anti-cancer treatment, in fact,
the Eggs could be taken from that woman, then freezing it immediately,
and then implanted in the woman external ovary.
It’s the first real 3D engineering success says Carson.