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Published online 21 June 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060619-7
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Womb transplants 'in five years'
Successful sheep trial raises hopes for human procedure.
Womb transplants in humans should be possible within five years, say scientists in Sweden who have successfully transplanted uteruses in sheep. The procedure would allow women who have functioning ovaries but no womb to carry their own children, and the researchers say they have already been contacted by hundreds of women who are interested in having such a transplant.
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