WITHIN the next year mice will be incubating the eggs of women who risk
damaging their ovaries because of medical treatment, say Canadian scientists.
The team has already successfully harvested human eggs from the back muscles of
rodents, they told a meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and
Embryology in Bologna.
Ariel Revel of the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, who leads the team
developing the technology, says it “offers new hope” to young women who become
infertile after vital medical intervention, such as cancer treatment.
The development is sure to be controversial. There was an outcry last…
