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Canada: Woman?s cryopreserved egg results in healthy baby

By Alliance Alert

Reuters: A way of preserving the chances of having a child for women and girls facing cancer treatment that will leave them infertile has been demonstrated to work, for the first time. Specialists at McGill University in Montreal have developed a protocol in which they retrieve immature eggs (i.e., "oocytes") from a woman's ovaries, induce the oocytes to mature in a lab dish, then deep-freeze them; the oocytes can then be thawed for fertilization at a future point.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 20, 2009 (boomark / email).