Recent Posts Tagged With 'ovaries'

• Radical fertility bid

  Posted on Saturday August 15th, 2009 at 08:00 in menopause, ivf, ovaries, tissue transplant

  A 47-YEAR-OLD Melbourne woman has had radical surgery that may make her a first-time mother - and part of medical history.Eight years after having "slices" of her ovaries removed, frozen and stored, Lisa had them reimplanted last month in the hope of...

• Stem cell discovery raises hopes of restoring female fertility

  Posted on Sunday July 26th, 2009 at 08:00 in fertility, ovaries, stem-cell research, old eggs

  The theory that women are born with all the eggs they will ever have has been challenged by research that could raise the prospect of restoring female fertility and reversing the menopause.Scientists in China have discovered that the ovaries of adult...

• New technique could save cancer patients' fertility

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 08:00 in Cancer, fertility, infertility, ovaries

  The tiny translucent egg nestled in the special laboratory gel was a mere 30 days old, but its four-week birthday caused researchers to quietly celebrate. This was the first time anyone had successfully grown a woman's immature egg cells, contained i...

• New Ovarian Transplant Technique Successful

  Posted on Wednesday July 1st, 2009 at 08:00 in Cancer, infertility, ovaries

  A new, two-step method of ovarian transplant has had excellent results, giving women a greater ability to conceive after cancer treatment or when older, doctors announced Monday.The technique successfully and quickly restored ovarian function enablin...

• The importance of folate, zinc and antioxidants

  Posted on Tuesday April 28th, 2009 at 08:00 in Vitamins, fertility, infertility, sperm, embryo, ovaries, birth defects, folic acid, male fertility, suppliments, implantation, chromosomal disorder

  Picture by lizvandhalThe importance of folate, zinc and antioxidants in the pathogenesis and prevention of subfertilityUV radiation destroys folic acid, a precursor for folate, the lack of which may result in birth defects.Current treatments of subfe...

• Recalibrating the Biological Clock?

  Posted on Friday April 17th, 2009 at 08:00 in fertility, infertility, ovaries, too old, old eggs

  A new study challenges the long-held belief that female mammals start life with a limited number of eggs and cannot produce new ones after birth. For the first time, a Chinese group has found mouse cells that produce new eggs when transplanted into s...

• Now, infertile women can become mothers

  Posted on Thursday April 16th, 2009 at 08:00 in infertility, ovaries, stem-cell research, too old, old eggs

  In what raises hopes of infertile women becoming mothers and allowing those healthy to put their motherhood on hold without worrying about menopause, scientists have discovered a way to create eggs in sterile ovaries.A team at Jiao Tong University in...

• Long-Held Tenet on Women's Fertility in Question

  Posted on Sunday April 12th, 2009 at 13:19 in ovaries, stem-cell research, too old, old eggs

  Picture by ftagamadSunday, April 12, 2009 - Scientists have produced strong new evidence challenging one of the most fundamental assumptions in biology: that female mammals, including women, are born with all the eggs they will ever have.In a provoca...

• Ovarian changes may link obesity and infertility

  Posted on Saturday March 21st, 2009 at 12:43 in ovulation, obesity, hormones, ovaries

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obese women have alterations in the environment around the ovary before they ovulate that appear to play a role in the well-documented association between obesity and reduced fertility, according to a report in the Journal...