Objective: To create an artificial ovary to provide an alternative way of restoring fertility in patients who cannot benefit from transplantation of cryopreserved ovarian tissue due to the threat of reintroducing malignant cells.
Luyckx, V., Dolmans, M.-M., Vanacker, J., Legat, C., Fortuno Moya, C., Donnez, J., & Andrade Amorim, C. (2014). A new step toward the artificial ovary: survival and proliferation of isolated murine follicles after autologous transplantation in a fibrin scaffold. Fertility and sterility, Epub ahead of print(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.12.025 (Original work published 2014)