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<p>Yup. People are doing this more and more.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://oncofertility.northwestern.edu/resources/ovarian-tissue-cryopreservation-otc">http://oncofertility.northwestern.edu/resources/ovarian-tissue-cryopreservation-otc</a><br>
There was a baby born from a frozen ovary in Edinburgh last month:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-36793572">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-36793572</a><br>
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<p>Even more radical is testis cryopreservation, intended to help
prepubertal boys undergoing chemotherapy have a chance of becoming
fathers:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://oncofertility.northwestern.edu/resources/testicular-tissue-cryopreservation">http://oncofertility.northwestern.edu/resources/testicular-tissue-cryopreservation</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/31234/InTech-Cryopreservation_of_testicular_tissue.pdf">http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/31234/InTech-Cryopreservation_of_testicular_tissue.pdf</a><br>
It works in mice, at least:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140701/ncomms5320/abs/ncomms5320.html">http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140701/ncomms5320/abs/ncomms5320.html</a><br>
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I am involved in a loose network at Oxford University looking into
cryopreservation - mostly modelling and ethics in my case - and a
fair number of the members are reproductive biologists/doctors.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-08-06 01:26, William Flynn
Wallace wrote:<br>
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ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I read in
Discover magazine that a woman facing chemotherapy had one
ovary removed and cryofrozen to protect the eggs.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans
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that this is of interest to some in the group.</div>
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