Chinese scientists are celebrating a breakthrough in infertility treatment that enables young women with damaged reproductive organs to have children.

Regenerative medicine experts at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and doctors at Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital have successfully used human umbilical cord mesenchyme stem cells to rehabilitate a woman’s damaged ovary.

This is to enable her to give birth to a healthy boy in January.

The 34-year-old mother had been diagnosed with premature ovarian failure (POF) three years ago and treatment began in 2015.

POF affects women under the age of 40.

In China, it affects more than 1 per cent of women of childbearing age, and is rising especially among younger women, says Sun Haixiang, chief gynecologist at Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital.

“A failed ovary cannot supply a woman with eggs,’’ says Sun. Read full articles on http://www.9exclusive.com.ng/2018/02/chinese-scientists-celebrate.html