Some embryos fail to implant in the womb, while others implant successfully, leading to pregnancy, and a new study sheds light on why that’s the case.
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Ethics Questions Arise as Genetic Testing of Embryos Increases
Genetic testing of embryos has been around for more than a decade, but its use has soared in recent years as methods have improved and more disease-causing genes have been discovered. The in vitro fertilization and testing are expensive — typically about $20,000 — but they make it possible for couples to ensure that their children will not inherit a faulty gene and to avoid the difficult choice of whether to abort a pregnancy if testing of a fetus detects a genetic problem.
Multiple Births on the Decline, CDC Reports
While fertility treatments in vogue since the early 1970s led to a dramatic increase in multiple births, subsequent reduction in the practice of transferring three or more embryos has caused a drop in births of triplets and higher-order multiples, a national survey showed.
Couples Welcome Babies Born From Embryos Saved During Sandy
They were some of Sandy’s smallest survivors: embryos trapped in a flooded fertility clinic and eggs ready to burst from the bloated ovaries of 21 worried women.
Improving IVF Is Focus at ASRM, IFFS Meeting
When it comes to oocyte retrieval for in vitro fertilization (IVF), 15 may be the sweet spot, and mitochondrial DNA may help predict which embryos will take hold and lead to pregnancies, researchers reported in Boston at the joint meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the International Federation of Fertility Societies.
When It Comes to 1 Million Frozen Embryos, What is Ethical?
After having twins, Ford and his wife struggled to decide what to do with the two frozen embryos they still had “on ice.”
Ex-Couple in Illinois Battle in Court Over Frozen Embryos
An estranged Illinois couple are battling in court over the future of frozen embryos they created before they broke up.
Beauty Contest for Embryos Goes Hollywood to Boost Births
Nikica Zaninovic used to take embryos out of an incubator each day and photograph them under a microscope to determine which were most likely to produce a baby. He’d inspect the number of cells, the extent to which they’d fragmented, the shell’s thickness and any defects.
Yours or Mine?
By Melissa B. Brisman, Esq. and Nancy M. Hartzband, Esq.
Couples may want to think about their cyropreserved (frozen) embryos, to be sure that they are on “the same page” and that their intentions for future use and …
IVF May Be Boosted By Time-Lapse Embryo Imaging
Time-lapse imaging which takes thousands of pictures of developing embryos can boost the success rate of IVF, according to British research.