Baby Girl Born From Full Ovary Transplant

Doctors in St. Louis said they have successfully transplanted a full ovary from a volunteer, allowing her infertile twin sister to give birth to a healthy baby girl on November 11.

It is the first time an entire ovary has been transplanted and resulted in a live birth, the researchers said. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, they said the method may offer a way to preserve fertility for cancer patients or for women who want to wait until they are older to start families.

One twin went into early menopause at age 15, but the transplanted ovary from her sister restored full fertility and she gave birth at the age of 38, Dr. Sherman Silber of the Infertility Center of St. Louis and his colleagues reported.

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Comments

[TruthAndTheory]

Why people can't consider the beautiful idea of adoption is beyond me.

[gurukalehuru]

Beautiful. The baby has two mothers.

[Polyh3dron]

So as long as every infertile woman out there has a fertile twin sister with an ovary to spare, infertility will be a thing of the past!

[HARVIN]

Revolting.