Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

Attempts to obtain eggs and offspring using oocytes in ovary have been made for keeping desirable traits in livestock, preserving human fertility, etc. Ovarian transplantation, one of those methods, ...

The researchers xenotransplanted rat ovaries into renal capsules of immunodeficient mice. After transplantation, rat oocytes were retrieved from the mice, matured and fertilized in vitro. Finally, the ...