As with humans, the maternal bond in nature is important for animals to find their way in the world. In mammals, a mother ...

Attempts to obtain eggs and offspring using oocytes in ovary have been made for keeping desirable traits in livestock, preserving human fertility, etc. Ovarian transplantation, one of those methods, ...

The researchers xenotransplanted rat ovaries into renal capsules of immunodeficient mice. After transplantation, rat oocytes were retrieved from the mice, matured and fertilized in vitro. Finally, the ...