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Swedish researchers announced on Wednesday that they had successfully carried out womb transplant. On four sheep, which subsequently became pregnant. They say the success of the operations brings the prospects of human uterus transplants one step closer.

The sheep were operated by laparotomy an incision through the abdominal wall. The uterus was taken outside the body. It was then kept for a couple of hours outside the body. They then put the uterus back in the same body they connected it with other blood vessels and to the vagina. After four to six weeks the sheep went back to the farm and then they have been put with rams and they have been mating and four of the five are pregnant.