Researchers build 'artificial ovary' to develop oocytes into mature human eggs

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 10:21 in Biology & Nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital have invented the first artificial human ovary, an advance that provides a potentially powerful new means for conducting fertility research and could also yield infertility treatments for cancer patients. The team has already used the lab-grown organ to mature human eggs.

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