PGT-A as an IVF Add-On: 25 Years of Controversy
The second session of 'What Does Genomics Mean for Fertility Treatment?' – the 2025 Annual Conference of PET – explored controversies surrounding preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy...
A group of techniques that look at the genetic material of embryos created through IVF. These include:
The second session of 'What Does Genomics Mean for Fertility Treatment?' – the 2025 Annual Conference of PET – explored controversies surrounding preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy...
by Hannah Flynn
The fourth session of 'What Does Genomics Mean for Fertility Treatment?' – the 2025 Annual Conference of PET – explored tensions between new genetic testing approaches, established regulation and ethics...
by Éilis Mathur
The fifth session of 'What Does Genomics Mean for Fertility Treatment?' – the 2025 Annual Conference of PET – brought together clinical, scientific and ethical perspectives on the relationship between genomics and donor conception...
While volunteering with nonprofit organisation Medical Life Lines Ukraine, which she co-directs, Dr Maria Botcharova visits a genetics lab in Kyiv and highlights the key issues faced there…
by Jen Willows
Some UK patients are seeking preimplantation genetic testing involving polygenic scores, placing fertility clinics in an awkward position...
Following reports that UK patients are seeking PGT-P – a form of preimplantation genetic testing that involves polygenic scores – Professor Angus Clarke discusses problems with polygenic scores in general, and with PGT-P in particular...
A novel method for visualising human blastocyst development – which has led to findings with implications for PGT-A – is described by Dr Ahmed Abdelbaki, a postdoctoral researcher in the Niakan Lab at the University of Cambridge...
A common IVF 'add-on' – preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) – may overestimate the impact of embryo abnormalities, new research suggests...
Professor of stem cell science, Dusko Ilic, discusses concerns raised by the plans of a US-based startup – the (new) Manhattan Project – to create genome-edited babies…
Genetic testing of IVF embryos could help more women over 35 have a baby in less time, according to a small study focused exclusively on women aged 35-42...
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