California and Japanese researchers find new hope for delaying early menopause

Researchers at St Marianna University in Kawasaki, Japan and Stanford University in California have found a new hope for women diagnosed with early menopause. This breakthrough in ‘reawakening the woman’s ovaries’ is done by removing the ovary, activating them in the laboratory, and re-implanting the fragments of the ovarian tissue.

Until now, the only option for having children with women going through early menopause was to accept IVF treatment using donated eggs, which would mean that the baby would be the result of another biological mother.

So far, this procedure has resulted in one baby born and another expecting. The researchers now plan to help other age groups of women, mostly women who become infertile between the ages of 40 and 45.