Medical advance may allow women to freeze their eggs in 20s, have babies at 50
April 3rd, 2011 - 1:07 pm ICT by ANILondon, Apr 3 (ANI): A new IVF breakthrough could allow women to have babies in middle age after freezing their eggs years before.
Midland Fertility Services of Aldridge, near Walsall, developed a new technique to preserve eggs after they have been removed from the womb.
The eggs’ viability had been at risk with previous methods as they took hours to cool to a required temperature of -196C.
But Midland Fertility Services can now freeze eggs in less than a minute, using liquid nitrogen, meaning more eggs can survive for use in fertility treatment.
The new method of freezing eggs could transform fertility treatments and boosts the hopes of women who fear they could become infertile due to disease.
Midland Fertility Services director Dr Gillian Lockwood said the innovation could prove as important for woman as the invention of the contraceptive pill.
“If they freeze their eggs at the age of 30, then those eggs will stay that age for ever, so they can have a baby even at the age of 50 with no greater chance of miscarriage or Downs Syndrome than they had at 30,” the Daily Mail quoted Lockwood as saying.
Women undergoing cancer treatment could also benefit from the technique. (ANI)
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