What happens when you are down to your last embryo and your chances of producing more are slim? This is a question facing many parents who are undergoing IVF. And this Greek fertility expert seems to have found a solution – artificially split up the embryo. In the process, Karl Illmensee, laboratory director at the [...]
Tags: embryos, IVF, Safety, splitting embryo, Twins
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She is 70 years, cannot read nor write but she holds the record of being the oldest first time mother in the world. According to Randeep Ramesh of The Guardian, this biological wonder came about through the fusion of social taboo and science.
By social taboo, Ramesh was referring to childlessness, by science to in vitro [...]
Tags: assisted reproduction, how old is too old, India, IVF, maternal age, oldest mother
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Ranjit Hayer is 60 years old and is one of the oldest women to give birth, definitely among the oldest in Canada, and certainly as a mom of twins, according the CBC Canada. After several decades of trying to conceive, her patience finally paid off in double dose and delivered twins earlier this week.
Ranjit has been [...]
Tags: age, Canada, IVF, Twins
Posted in: News, Twins
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A new technique that rapidly screens for genetic abnormalities in IVF embryos has borne fruit. A 41-year old woman in the UK is pregnant using this technique after going through 13 unsuccessful IVF cycles, according to Nature News.
The array comparative genomic hybridization can now screen rapidly eggs which are not deemed viable due to chromosomal [...]
Tags: IVF, screening technique, success rate, U.K., viability
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What would you do if you wanted a baby, but all your husband’s female relatives had suffered from breast cancer, the kind that doctors knew was caused by a faulty gene?
A controversial egg selection technique selection has resulted in the first baby girl born in the UK this week that doctors know is free from [...]
Tags: breast cancer, IVF
Posted in: Baby, TTC
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