Critser, who has transplanted elephant
ovarian tissue into mice and gotten the mice to produce elephant eggs, says that producing an embryo «is not so far - fetched.»
Not exact matches
ONPRC researchers also have been investigating two ways of maturing follicles from cryopreserved, thawed
tissue: transplanting strips of
ovarian tissue back
into a monkey's body, or growing the
tissue in vitro by encapsulating individual follicles in a biomaterial that mimics an ovary.
A HUMAN ovary grown in the lab from slivers of
ovarian tissue has been able to turn an immature egg
into one that is ready to be fertilised.
In their research, scientists at Rutgers created animal models that closely resemble the cancerous tumors found in women with
ovarian cancer by injecting tumor
tissues obtained from gynecological cancer patients treated at the Cancer Institute
into laboratory mice.
Building on 30 years of research, this achievement outlines three fundamental steps that successfully took
ovarian tissue samples and nurtured them
into human eggs to a point of full maturity.
Most
ovarian cancers are serous carcinomas, which develop in the
tissue lining the ovaries and are subtyped
into high - grade and low - grade.
Most likely some
ovarian tissue was left in the body during surgery and that
tissue releases hormones that cause the animal to go
into heat.