Scientists pave way for women to bear children later in life

AN AUSTRIAN scientist has managed to remove and freeze ovaries in sheep and successfully replace them, in a move he says could allow women to have children into their 60s and 70s.

One of the sheep was later able to reproduce a lamb called Henry, born without complications.

Professor Johannes Huber, a gynaecologist at Vienna’s General Hospital, said the technique was a step forward from experiments where only a section of the ovary was removed and later replaced, and meant women would regain their menstrual cycle as well.