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New Hope for Women Lacking Functional Eggs in Their Ovaries Who Want to Have Their Own Baby

The US Patent Office has allowed application 11/473,910 for a method to grow oocytes (eggs) from a woman’s ovaries even if the ovaries are no longer producing oocytes. With conventional IVF (in vitro fertilization), unless a woman supplies her own eggs, the baby is not genetically related to her. For the first time, this technology allows a woman who is not making eggs to have a baby that is genetically related to her. - July 13, 2012