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DNA Fingerprinting Could ID Viable Embryos
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 "One of the major stumbling blocks to worldwide acceptance of a single embryo transfer policy is the lack of highly predictive criteria to select the single most viable embryo within a cohort," co-author Dr. Gayle Jones, senior research scientist at the Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories, said in a prepared statement. "The ability to use objective, measurable criteria rather than subjective observations, such as morphology, should improve the predictive value and provide sufficient confidence for clinicians to shift towards single embryo transfers for all patients without a concomitant drop in pregnancy rates. This would effectively reduce multiple pregnancies, which is a priority in the field of assisted reproductive medicine at present."
More work needs to be undertaken before these findings become applicable in the clinic, the researchers said.
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Last updated 5/13/2008
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SOURCE: European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology, news release, May 13, 2008
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