Womb transplantation offers hope to women who wish to get pregnant

Britain is to trial a human research series that will allow women to receive a donor uterus and ultimately have children, writes Catherine Shanahan.

WE’VE all seen it on TV: Transplant surgery that’s dramatic, complex and tense; flesh carved to the sound of Beethoven’s electrifying 5th; scalpel and clamps passed like love notes to the hospital’s hottest doctor.

On screen, it’s a world of glamour. Off screen, there’s no razzle-dazzle.