News tagged with frozen embryos


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 ...


Who gets the frozen embryos when a couple splits?

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

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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 ...





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Study: Donated embryos could result in more than 2,000 new embryonic stem cell lines

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 20, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a survey of more than one thousand infertility patients with frozen embryos, 60 percent of patients report that they are likely to donate their embryos to stem cell research, a level of donation that could result in roughly ...


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 ...


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 ...


Single thawed embryo transfer after PGD does not affect pregnancy rates

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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 ...


Researchers report technique for freezing and preserving genetically enhanced pig embryos

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created May 03, 2006 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers led by a University of Missouri-Columbia professor of reproductive biotechnology have reported success in freezing and preserving swine embryos that were created by in vitro techniques and that carried modified ...


Stem cell lines created from discarded IVF embryos

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created Feb 05, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Human embryos that are discarded every day as medical waste from in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics could be an important source of stem cells for research, according to a team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers ...


Fertility doctor says he's on the brink of cloning human: report

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 16

A US-based fertility doctor claimed to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs of four women in an interview published Wednesday.


Brooding fishes take up nutrients from their own children

Brooding fishes take up nutrients from their own children

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In the pipefish, the male cares for the offspring. Apart from the ones he sucks the life out of. The discovery of filial cannibalism in the pipefish is now creating a stir in the research world.


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 ...


3 IVF attempts double chances

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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 ...



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