X-Message-Number: 27467
From: "Anthony Dawber" <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #27466
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:00:01 +0100

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4586838.stm

Young career women will soon be routinely freezing their 
eggs so they can have children after their fertility has 
declined, experts are predicting. 

Fertility pioneer Dr Simon Fishel said coming 
technological developments in the embryo-freezing process 
would allow women to effectively delay motherhood. 

The high water content of eggs mean that when it is frozen 
ice crystals that form inside can destroy it. 

But fertility experts say a new process, called 
"vitrification", where the water is drawn out and 
chemicals added is proving increasingly successful. 

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