Some cancer treatments can make it more difficult to get pregnant Chaloemphon Wanitcharoentham / Getty
It may be possible to rejuvenate ovaries after chemotherapy without the need for surgery, after the fertility of female mice was successfully restored following injections of donor cells.
The approach involves injecting either stored or donated follicles 鈥 the cells in ovaries that contain and eventually release egg cells 鈥 into the ovaries. The technique is 鈥渁ble to rejuvenate the potential of聽the ovary using donated follicles鈥 and could 鈥減rolong the fertility of women鈥, says Michael Dahan at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who wasn鈥檛 involved…
