Ovary Banks: Freezing the Biological Clock

The clock started ticking for T. Wilson in 2008, when she turned 36. She had been divorced for seven years, and as a trainee surgeon she barely had time to sleep, let alone date. But her waning fertility was not interested in reasons for putting off a pregnancy. Faced with the possibility that she might never be a mother, Wilson was afraid.She wanted to preserve her fertility but didn't like what technology had to offer. At that point, the preferred option for thousands of women all over the world was to freeze their eggs, but Wilson was daunted by the prospect of hormone injections, high cost and the time off work. Then she consulted Sherman Silber, a surgeon in St Louis, Missouri, who suggested she might like to bank one of her ovaries.It is a highly experimental option.Read more at...New Scientist, April 2012.