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Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Powdered egg babies: Just add water to start a family!!!!!!!!!!

Women in decades to come may be able to store their eggs as a powder and simply add water and sperm when they want to start a family.

The world’s first womb swap baby, Vincent, has already been delivered using an unrelated donorThe usual way to store eggs for future fertilization and implantation is to freeze them in liquid nitrogen. 

Now scientists in Israel have developed a method to ‘powderise’ eggs — in this case, cows’ eggs — to store them.

First, they freeze the eggs: it takes less than a tenth of a second for the eggs to reach a temperature of minus 200c, too short a time for ice crystals to form, which can damage their cellular structure. 

The frozen eggs are then held for a day at minus 55c at low pressure to convert them into a powder, which can be stored at room temperature indefinitely.
VIA dailymail

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