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...prematurely menopausal: her ovaries had ceased to release eggs or to produce the hormones needed to sustain a pregnancy. The child she had carried for nine months was the genetic offspring of another woman, who had donated an unfertilized egg. The birth of the world's first "donor-egg baby" in November, which was announced last week by scientists in Australia, marks a new step in overcoming infertility. Declared Gynecologist Wayne Decker, executive director of the Fertility Research Foundation of New York: "It is a remarkable and astounding feat that offers hope to all women who suffer from ovarian...
...permission, they collected one more to be used in an impregnation attempt in another infertile woman. The prematurely menopausal woman was an ideal recipient. For 2½ months she had been primed for a possible pregnancy with daily doses of the hormones estrogen and progesterone. She matched the donor in eye and hair color, body build, social class and education level...
...donor's egg was fertilized in a Petri dish using sperm obtained from the recipient's husband. Thirty hours later, when the egg had cleaved into two cells, it was inserted into the uterus of the menopausal woman. Her body adjusted so naturally to the pregnancy that she has even been able to breast-feed her son. One sad note amid all the celebration: the woman who donated the egg failed to become pregnant. She still does not know that in one sense, at least, she has become a mother...
...body of the woman donating the egg. In the method used by Dr. John Buster and his team at Harbor/U.C.L.A. Medical Center in Torrance, a woman with healthy ovaries was artificially inseminated with sperm from the husband of an infertile woman. Five days after fertilization, the donor's uterus was flushed with a nutrient solution and the embryo was recovered and implanted in the infertile woman's uterus...
Scientists see immense possibilities for the donor-egg techniques. Says Australia's Dr. Wood: "It is now theoretically possible to override menopause, thus extending the childbearing years of women who marry late in life, remarry or defer having children until middle...