“Study tests new IVF Device”

There is more good news for persons considering Invitro-Fertilization as the option to have children. A recent study is evaluating a new way of incubating fertilised embryos. This process is geared at decreasing the environmental stresses involved in this process, thus increasing the embryos chances of survival and resulting in more successful pregnancies.

For more on this, follow the link below:-

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/03march/Pages/ivf-isolator-improves-embryo-selection.aspx

From the article

"In conventional systems, the embryos had to be transferred between different devices to perform all the various stages of IVF treatment, but the new system allows a range of functions to be performed in a single sealed unit that regulates the temperature and quality of the air around them. This research found that in the conventional system 30% of embryos successfully developed to the ‘blastocyst stage’, which is seen five or six days after fertilisation, compared with 40% in the new system. The new system was also associated with an increase in clinical pregnancy rates during the period that it was introduced."

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