Artificial Ovary Could Help Infertile Women

[undeterred]

Technology Review (MIT)
By Karen Weintraub

Artificial Ovary Could Help Infertile Women
Tissue engineering allows for complex three-dimensional cell construction.

Researchers at Brown University have created an "artificial human ovary" using a tissue engineering approach that they hope will one day allow scientists to mature human eggs in a laboratory.

In the near term, an artificial ovary will enable researchers to better explore the impact of environmental toxins or fertility-enhancing substances on human fertility. It could also aid the development of new forms of contraceptives and the study of ovarian cancer.

Further down the line, it could also help women whose ovaries are damaged because of chemotherapy, radiation, or illness, according to a paper published in the current issue of Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. Today, those women have limited opportunities for childbirth: either a hurried in-vitro fertilization cycle that leads to a handful of frozen eggs, or freezing ovarian tissue in the hopes that healthy eggs will someday be able to be matured.

An artificial ovary, where immature eggs could be harvested by the thousands and then matured at will in the laboratory, would open up huge possibilities for the one in a 1,000 women who need it, says the paper's first author, Stephan Krotz, who was a graduate student at Brown when he worked on the paper.

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/26312/?p1=A2&a=f

Amazing.

[CountAllVotes]

1. let Octomom know

just in case ... ;)

[Riftaxe]

2. In the mean time adoption is a perfectly fine

work-around. :)

[kestrel91316]

3. Hallelujah! Because we have such a shortage of humans, you know.

[Bobbieo]

5. My sentiments., exactly!!!

[txlibdem]

10. Yes but we've poisoned the planet so much that human gestation is perilous

There are so many toxins in all of us right now it is just sickening. You don't even know. PBA is in each and every one of us right now. Fertility rates among whites in developed nations are falling. Males are losing the ability to father a child.

This technology could save our race, and ensure that each child has a clean and safe environment in which to develop. We could even remove the genes for diseases while we are at it. Gotta be careful about that slippery slope,though.

[valerief]

4. Can we get bulletproof abortion clinics, too? nt

[Odin2005]

6. Just what we need on an overpopulated planet!

:eyes:

Sucks to be infertile, but the needs of the Planet should come before their desire to have kids. Oh, and they can ADOPT.

[Posteritatis]

7. ITT: Hypocrisy. (nt)

[Nihil]

8. Woohoo ... infertility can now be inherited!

:hide:

[Orsino]

9. Nobel Prize Awarded To Man Who Helped Humans Have More Fucking Babies

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nobel-prize-awarded-to-man-who-helped-humans-have,18219/

"We congratulate him on finding a way for rich limpdicks to achieve what nearly a million poor couples do by complete fucking accident every day." Nobel officials also awarded the Prize in Chemistry to the inventor of Pepcid antacids, which allow people to eat twice as much goddamn food as anybody needs, and the Prize in Literature to Twilight author Stephenie Meyer, "because fuck it."