Egg Breakthrough Could Preserve Fertility

Scientists in Scotland yesterday revealed a major breakthrough in helping to preserve women's fertility. A team from Edinburgh University have succeeded in taking early stage follicles from a woman's ovaries and maturing them into eggs in the lab for the first time. The discovery should help women undergoing cancer treatment, or those wishing to delay motherhood so they can concentrate on their careers. It could revolutionise the preservation of fertility for women in the next five to ten years. The team, led by Dr Evelyn Telfer, was able to develop early stage follicles - tiny egg-bearing pockets in the ovaries - to a much later stage. They took pieces of ovary containing the follicles from six volunteer women...