A baby has reportedly become the first in the world to be born after a woman’s eggs were matured in a laboratory before being frozen. In a letter published in cancer journal Annals of Oncology, French fertility doctors explained that a baby boy was born to a 34-year-old woman five years after her eggs were extracted. When the woman in question was 29, she underwent chemotherapy to treat breast cancer. However, her medical treatment meant she did not have enough time to be given ovarian stimulation hormones, which would have helped her produce mature eggs that could then be frozen.
As a result of the circumstances, scientists removed seven immature eggs from her ovaries. They then used a method called in vitro maturation (IVM) to help mature the eggs in a lab. After the eggs were matured, they were frozen using a process called vitrification. Vitrification is a method that involves the…
