Word: ovarian
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...could--though it's theoretical at this point--lead to powerful new treatments for infertility and perhaps even for staving off menopause. "If it's true," says Roger Gosden, scientific director of the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va., "it's as big a paradigm shift in ovarian biology as Dolly and cloning were for embryology...
...existence of ovarian germ stem cells is known in flies and some fish and birds. Given his recent findings in mice, Tilly said, it would not be a stretch to believe that germ stem cells would have been an evolutionarily adaptive trait in human females as well...
Recent findings indicate other promising avenues in human reproductive biology. Kutluk Oktay, associate professor of reproductive medicine and obstetrics and gynecology at Cornell’s Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility, recently announced that it is possible to freeze ovarian tissue for up to six months, replant it into a woman’s abdominal area and have it resume production of eggs. This finding has applications for women who are undergoing radiation treatment, which destroys egg cells...
...some ways, this latest turn of events was even more upsetting and confusing than the birth. But the physician's recommendation was clear: the vestigial ovarian and Fallopian-tube tissue and the testis should be removed at once, while the child was still under anesthesia. Otherwise the tissue could become cancerous. "All I could hear was cancer, cancer, cancer," Debbie says. So she and her husband consented to the operation. (The phallus, which doctors eventually renamed a clitoris, was surgically reduced two years later.) The next day the Hartmans took home their recovering infant, whom they quickly renamed Kelli...
...Slugger. When Kyle was 11 weeks old, however, he developed a hernia that required surgery. Midway through the operation, four doctors came to the waiting room, and one of them told Kyle's parents that "your child is in fact a girl." The surgical team had found rudimentary ovarian and Fallopian-tube tissue in Kyle's body...