Denmark unveiled the first artificial ovary

The material for making an artificial ovary is the real ovary of a cancer-stricken cancer patient, and the component that makes living cells, "biological design . "

This is the work of a team of scientists from Rigshospitalet, a leading European reproductive support center based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Their product is an "biologically designed" ovary, which has demonstrated surprising performance in animal testing.

The artificial ovary is a human ovary that is "biologically regenerated", only in the frame because it has been removed DNA and many biological factors - (photo: myeIVF)

Materials made of artificial ovaries come from cancer patients themselves. A series of chemical processes is used to extract DNA and cells, other biological materials in the ovary - all the things that cancer can root and develop.

In other words, the ovary was almost "deprived of the soul" , only an inert scaffold. Surprisingly, this framework still ensures reproductive function. After the process of removing biological materials, the team studied immature oocytes into this bare frame and successfully developed them.

Young eggs contain in the artificial ovary only this frame is easily re-integrated and exists in any host body, currently experimental mice, in the future is the cancer patients themselves.

Dr. Susanne Pors, head of the study, said it was the first time human human follicles survived in a scaffold that had been removed from the genetic code. It is a new strategy for preserving fertility without the risk of malignant cell re-growth, because the bare frame has nothing to do with cancer.

Prospective technology replaces the method of freezing eggs before chemotherapy - radiotherapy used before. Freezing eggs and the IVF process then has a small failure rate no matter how high-end technology is used. This new technology promises a sustainable solution by fully preserving fertility: when the ovaries after biological regeneration are brought to the host, it will still live and operate, they will be able to have children. naturally whenever they want.