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Breakthrough brings new hope

Apr 24 2008 by Gregory Tindle, South Wales Echo

NEWS of the service at Cardiff’s Spire Hospital comes as UK scientists have announced a medical breakthrough that could bring fresh hope for women facing infertility.

For the first time, a team of researchers has managed to grow hundreds of eggs in the laboratory using a new technique that could help cancer patients whose treatment can leave them infertile. It would also allow thousands more women to wait until middle age to have children.

The scientists from Edinburgh University have shown that immature eggs can be frozen, grown and matured in the lab.

The process could lead to women having pieces of ovary containing the immature eggs removed and stored. Later on they could be thawed, fertilised and implanted into the womb.

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