Researchers have developed a new technology that permits the growth of fallopian tubes and uterine tissue, offering a better approach to female reproductive repair surgery and hope for women born with reproductive abnormalities to obtain a normal functioning reproductive system.
Unfortunately, some women are born with missing or malfunctioning reproductive organs; this occurs because of irregularities in the growth and fusion of their Mullerian ducts, the process which produces the female reproductive tract.
Mullerian ducts are a set of simple and uniform tubes that, during the first few months of gestational development in female babies—around the fourth to 12th week in the pregnancy—fuse to form the complex reproductive organs we normally refer to as a uterus….