Scientists publishing in the journal Cell Stem Cell have reported the production of functional
human oocytes from discarded genetic material, a process which they suggest could one day assist in fertility treatment or mitochondrial replacement therapy.
Not exact matches
The results come
from the first year of the
Human Oocyte Preservation Experience (HOPE) Registry, which is analysing the results of thawed - egg IVF over five years.
But cloning efforts have failed because, unlike mouse or
human oocytes, rat
oocytes start to divide less than an hour after they are removed
from the animal's body.
«The idea will be to obtain
oocytes and discarded embryos
from IVF treatments in order to test this technology using
human samples.»
Since the first report of in vitro
human oocyte maturation in 1969 [3], several reports have documented blastocyst (BL) development or live birth achieved
from oocytes matured in vitro [1], [4], [5].