Bionic ovary fine-tunes menopause

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3155, 2017, pág. 11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Emmanuel Opara at Wake Forest School of Medicine in North Carolina discover that artificial ovary can relieve the symptoms of menopause. By creating capsules of ovarian tissue that once implanted, can supply the full range of ovarian hormones. To see if they work, the team implanted them into rats that have had their ovaries removed a process that mimics menopause.