New techniques improve IVF success rates

Photo credit: Life size model of baby at 8 weeks after conception by Bill Davenport

A life-sizets from Yale University, US, have developed a new technique to improve IVF efficiency from a current success rate of around 34 percent, to more than 80 percent in a pilot study.

Fertility clinics usually study newly fertilized embryos under a microscope to determine if they are developing in a normal way, and to see which seem the most likely to successfully implant.

Emre Seli and his team have developed a more advanced method of analyzing which embryos are healthy, by studying cell metabolism

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Category: embryo, Fertility clinic, In vitro fertilization, IVF