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3 IVF attempts double chances

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Just one in three women gives birth after a single IVF attempt, but the cumulative chance of a live birth increases with each cycle - where women are offered three cycles nearly two thirds go on to have babies, reveals a ...


ICSI or IVF: Babies born from frozen embryos do just as well

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created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Analysis of the longest running ICSI programme in the United States has found reassuring evidence that babies born from frozen embryos fertilised via ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) do just as well as those born from ...





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Single thawed embryo transfer after PGD does not affect pregnancy rates

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Transferring just one embryo at a time to a woman's womb after embryos have undergone preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and freezing at the blastocyst stage has become a real option after researchers achieved pregnancy ...


Who gets the frozen embryos when a couple splits?

Frozen assets: Who gets the embryos when a couple splits?

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Divorcing couples have always fought over property, income and custody of children. But technology has added an even more contentious item to the list: the frozen embryos the couple created ...


Children born from frozen embryos weigh more and do better than those born after fresh transfer

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created Jul 08, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Barcelona, Spain: Children born after a frozen, thawed embryo has been replaced in the womb have higher birth weight than those born where fresh embryos were used, Danish scientists reported to the 24th annual conference ...


Largest study of fertility patients shows concerns about embryo disposition

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created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fertility patients who are done having children feel responsible for the stored, frozen embryos left over from their treatment, yet more than half are against implanting the embryos in anyone else, according to a new study ...


New method of assessing women's eggs could enhance IVF success, study shows

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created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many couples who have trouble conceiving a child have turned to a process known as in vitro fertilization. The resulting embryos are then transferred back into the woman or placed in storage. More than 400,000 embryos are ...


Identifying the Metabolism of a Healthy Embryo Could Improve Infertility Treatment

Identifying the Metabolism of a Healthy Embryo Could Improve Infertility Treatment

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created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Embryos that are most likely to result in a pregnancy are crucial to the success of in vitro fertilization (IVF) but are difficult to identify. Researchers at Yale School of Medicine, led ...


Worldwide report shows increase in assisted reproduction: 250,000 babies a year

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created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is responsible for an estimated 219,000 to 246,000 babies born each year worldwide according to an international study. The study also finds that the number of ART procedures is growing ...


The Medical Minute: Preservation of fertility -- gynecologic cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In recent years, several new innovations have been employed in the treatment for women with gynecologic cancer in an effort to preserve fertility. These innovations consist of conservative ovarian staging, embryo/oocyte cryopreservation, ...


ISU researchers working to develop, market embryonic test for bovine genetics

Researchers working to develop, market embryonic test for bovine genetics

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking at the genetic makeup of cattle to determine their value is nothing new. An examination of a small sample of hair or blood can reveal if a calf has any genetic diseases that will lower ...


Secrets in a seed: Clues into the evolution of the first flowers

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Approximately 120-130 million years ago, one of the most significant events in the history of the Earth occurred: the first flowering plants, or angiosperms, arose. In the late 1800s, Darwin referred to their development ...



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