Cryopreservation techniques bring hopes for women cancer victims and endangered species

Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 18:49 in Biology & Nature

Emerging cryopreservation techniques are increasing hope of restoring fertility for women after diseases such as ovarian cancer that lead to destruction of reproductive tissue. The same techniques can also be used to maintain stocks of farm animals, and protect against extinction of endangered animal species by maintaining banks of ovarian tissue or even nascent embryos that can used to produce offspring at some point in the future...

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