The chromosomal testing is one of the techniques now coming into use to help fertility clinics answer one of their most vexing questions: Which test-tube embryo or embryos will give a woman the best shot at having a baby?
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Moms Pick Best Embryos From a Petri Dish With New Tool
Women in the U.S. having trouble conceiving the natural way now may use a new tool to help choose the lab-dish embryo most likely to result in a pregnancy.
Embryo Testing Should Not Be Controversial
Genetic screening is a wonderful technology that can change the face of IVF: Doctors can finally know which embryos are healthy instead of guessing based on an embryo’s appearance (healthy-looking embryos are not always healthy).
Embryo Screening Gives Couples Hope for Healthy Pregnancy
Embryologist Julia Butler works in Greenville Health System’s new IVF lab at Memorial Medical Office Building. The new $1 million space spans 3,000 square feet and is outfitted with the latest equipment, including micro-manipulation tables where embryologists unite egg and sperm using microscopes that allow for 400 times magnification.
To Catch a Killer Gene: Sisters Race to Stop Mystery Disease
America is experiencing a boom in biological fortune-telling. Doctors can now scan the genes of a fetus using only a drop of the mother’s blood, testing for hundreds of known mutations, including Down syndrome. Soon they’ll be able to detect a growing list of rare mutations—almost none of them treatable—and predict an embryo’s risk of more common ailments like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease
Mother Charged Over IVF Consent
A WA mother has faced court accused of forging her estranged husband’s signature to convince a fertility clinic to allow her to use a stored embryo to get pregnant.
NASA Scientist Gives Birth Using Embryos on Ice for 19 Years
NASA research scientist Kelly Burke looks upon her babbling baby and ponders the unique reality that his biological siblings, created from the same embryo cycle and born to another family 2,500 miles away, will be of voting age at the time of his first birthday this November.
Oncofertility Offers New Options For Young Women With Cancer Who Want To Have Kids
The most common and successful option for a woman with cancer is freezing an egg or embryo before undergoing chemotherapy or radiation. Once the patient decides she is ready to get pregnant, she is given estrogen and progesterone to prepare the lining of the uterus. The embryo is then thawed (or the egg is inseminated) and transferred into the uterus. Success rates specifically for cancer patients have not yet been studied. But in vitro fertilization (IVF) rates are around 50 percent for women younger than 35.
Fertility Doctors Get New Guidelines on Maximum Number of Embryos to Transfer
No more than a single embryo should be transferred at a time in most younger women undergoing assisted-baby making, according to new guidelines for the nation’s for-profit fertility industry aimed at minimizing multiple births.
Scientists Analyze Genetic Makeup of Human and Mouse Embryos in Unprecedented Detail
UCLA scientists, in collaboration with teams in China, have used the powerful technology of single-cell RNA sequencing to track the genetic development of a human and a mouse embryo at an unprecedented level of accuracy.