Yes, freeze your eggs!

As you may know, sperm are relatively easy to freeze, but eggs aren’t. Because of this, infertility problems of women including from cancer treatments leave some women unable to have children.

While it can be done, it doesn’t always work too well - the eggs tend to get damaged when they are thawed. So far only around 150 babies have been born from eggs that were frozen.

Now some Japanese researchers have revealed at a scientific meeting that they have come up with a new method for freezing eggs that works much better. With their method they were able to successfully thaw 94.5% of 111 eggs that they tested the method on.

For more detailed information about this new egg freezing method please see the ScienceBlog post about it at ‘New egg freezing technique offers hope to hundreds of women‘.

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