What kind of research is presently being done to help women with POF?
Experimental research is being done in which a woman uses a donor egg and has the nucleus of her own egg injected into the donor’s egg. This is in the early stages at present, it has not been tried in animals before bringing it to humans as far as I can tell, and it does raise a series of troubling questions about how it might work and what could go wrong, as does all of this sort of stuff. I don’t believe that it is a technology ready to be used by women with POF. The place where this work is being done is New York University. There are other investigators who have been trying to find medical treatments for POF for years. Unfortunately, none of these medical treatments work, but it’s important to know the negative results sometimes, just so you don’t go pursuing those sorts of options.
