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Published online 17 October 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news051017-6
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Reproductive medicine
Erika Check goes to Montreal to mingle with the scientists and doctors who are gaining ever more mastery over the earliest stages of human life.
Someday, infertile women will be able to do something much more than weeping tears of frustration at the expiration of their biological clocks: they will be able to get in line for a transplant, and get to work conceiving with a brand-new set of ovaries, or even a uterus.
That's what some reproductive surgeons say, anyway.
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