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For the cells to mature, the team had to incubate them with fresh ovarian tissue from mice—a workaround that’s both a bit icky and totally impractical for any future infertility treatments.

When the woman is ready for pregnancy, she returns to the lab to have her ovarian tissue thawed and returned to the ovary.

Further complicating the whole process was the fact that I’d need to take at least a month off from running to avoid ovarian torsion, a condition in which the ovary twists around the ligaments that holds it, cutting off blood flow.

Lanier has been involved in several high-profile lawsuits, including a case in which 22 women claimed Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer.

A turning point came some 25 years ago, when her close friend Carol contracted ovarian cancer.

Must both ovarian and testicular tissue be present for a person to be “counted”?

Women with HBOC hold a lifetime risk of 50-85 percent for breast cancer and 15-40 percent for ovarian cancer.

Her mother, after a nearly decade-long struggle, succumbed to ovarian cancer in 2007 at age 56.

Aspirin inhibits ovarian-tumor cell growth by as much as 68 percent.

Also present are numerous ovarian eggs having diameters up to about 3.5 mm.

In medium-sized ovarian eggs this network is very easily seen, and extends through the whole yolk.

This area will be spoken of as the ovarian area or region, since the primitive ova are confined to it.

The right ovarian ridge, which will henceforth alone engage our attention, has grown very considerably.

The ovarian region grows somewhat in breadth, though in this respect different embryos vary considerably.