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...raising tennis events and by contributing to Tami Agassi's recently published Star Palate cookbook (Documentary Media). The book gathers recipes from celebrities like Anna Kournikova (Ukrainian borscht), Emeril Lagasse (veal shanks), Britney Spears (seafood pasta) and even Bill Gates (clam chowder). All proceeds will go to breast- and ovarian-cancer research. Andre and his wife, tennis great Steffi Graf, contributed their favorite roast-turkey recipe. "Stef and I really enjoy spending time together in the kitchen," he says. Are they as competitive there as they are on the court? "Let's just say we each pick an area...
Tamara is a healthy 8-lb. baby girl with a guaranteed place in the history of infertility treatments. She is the first child born from ovarian tissue that was removed from her mother, frozen and transplanted back. The tissue was taken out when her mom was 25 and facing chemotherapy for cancer. Six years later, cancer free but infertile from the drugs, she had the tissue stitched back in--and got pregnant by natural means four months later. The breakthrough raises hope for the thousands of women who face sterilization each year from cancer treatments. If the procedure proves safe...
BORN. To OUARDA TOUIRAT, 32, the first woman to conceive naturally and give birth after a transplant of her own frozen ovarian tissue, and her husband, MALIK; a daughter, TAMARA; in Brussels. In 1997, Touirat was diagnosed with advanced Hodgkin's lymphoma. Doctors proposed the experimental technique to preserve her chances of having a child naturally. Her ovarian tissue, which holds immature eggs, was frozen in liquid nitrogen, then thawed and reimplanted after Touirat successfully completed chemotherapy and was declared cancer-free. FREED. GLORIA TREVI, 36, irreverent pop-music superstar nicknamed "Mexico's Madonna"; following her acquittal on charges...
Finally, in an especially ingenious experiment, they used mice genetically engineered to carry a jellyfish gene that glows a faint fluorescent green and transplanted normal ovarian tissue into them. If the mice really did have egg-producing stem cells, some should migrate into the new tissue to generate new, green eggs--while the follicles that enveloped them, coming from normal tissue, would be white. "That's exactly what we saw," says Tilly...
Even if they do, it will be a while before anyone benefits from this research. Scientists will have to figure out how to purify ovarian stem cells, then transfer them into depleted ovaries to see if they can restart egg production--first in mice, then, if possible, in humans. But if they can, Tilly envisions all sorts of benefits. You might extract the cells and freeze them, and if a woman got cancer, you could reintroduce them after chemotherapy shut down her ovaries. Or you might freeze some of the vigorous stem cells in a young woman so she would...