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An ova bank, or cryobank, or egg cell bank is a facility that collects and stores human Ovum, mainly from egg donation, primarily for the purpose of achieving pregnancies of either the donor, at a later time (i.e. to overcome issues of infertility), or through third party reproduction, notably by artificial insemination. Ova donated in this way are known as donor ova.
Generally, the main purpose of storing ova, at present, is to overcome infertility which may arise at a later age, or due to a disease. The ova are generally collected between 31 and 35 years of age.
The procedure of collecting ova may or may not include ovarian hyperstimulation.
It can be expected however that ova collection will become more important in the future, i.e. for third party reproduction, and/or for producing , i.e. from unfertilized eggs (oocytes).
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