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Boston Company Seeks to Freeze Unfertilized Eggs

Reuters

A Boston-based biotechnology company on Wednesday said it has moved one step closer to freezing unfertilized eggs, a procedure that may let women delay motherhood for years. ViaCell Inc. in a statement announced the potential breakthrough in reproductive medicine.

The privately held company said it is ready to start clinical trials of a technique developed by doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital that would allow human eggs, or oocytes, to be frozen for later use. If successful, the company said the process could be offered to patients in a few years.