One cryobank, Family Creations, which has offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Austin and other large cities, notes that a 23 - year -
old egg donor «excels in calligraphy, singing, modeling, metal art sculpting, painting, drawing, shading and clay sculpting.»
Not exact matches
All of our anonymous
egg donors are 21 - 31 years
old, an age when
eggs are at their healthiest and most viable.
They want to explore whether mitochondria from younger
donors» cells may stimulate the
older eggs» ability to be fertilized and develop normally.
Two of the
eggs became 5 - day -
old embryos, or blastocysts, that were clones of the male
donors.
Then he removes the nucleus from the
donor egg of a much younger woman and in its place microinjects the genetic material of the
older woman.
In essence, these studies suggested that a newly fertilized, enucleated
egg has the ability to «reprogram» a much
older donor nucleus, making the resultant cell behave as though it were at a very early embryonic state.
Results of in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles using
eggs from
older donors are as good as those using
eggs from younger women, a new study finds.
«Yes, the success rate of
donor eggs is indeed quite high,» says Dr. Minkin, «but... there is some data to suggest that substantially
older women, because of decreased blood flow to their uterus, may have a tougher time conceiving — part of the reason many clinics do have an upper age limit.»