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Published online 24 January 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020121-8
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First thawed transplant success
Rat becomes pregnant from frozen ovaries.
Researchers have successfully transplanted ovaries that had been stored in liquid nitrogen from one female rat to another.
Roger Gosden and colleagues at Notre-Dame Hospital in Montreal, Canada, are the first to demonstrate that entire organs can be safely stored and thawed1.
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