A group of techniques that look at the genetic material of embryos created through IVF. These include:
Mechanisms leading to aneuploidy in embryos can start right from the first DNA duplication, a new study has shown...
Professor Frances Flinter, emeritus professor of clinical genetics at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust discusses Gregor Mendel's life and works, 200 years after his birth...
Changes to US abortion law could have wide-ranging impacts on fertility treatment including IVF and preimplantation genetic diagnosis...
The question of what is a 'permitted embryo' under the legislation governing assisted reproduction in the UK has received increasing scrutiny as technological progress challenges the concept of embryohood...
A US couple is suing an IVF clinic for destroying seven embryos by not storing them correctly...
A new study claims to be able to map the genomes of embryos created by IVF, and suggests the technique could be used for preimplantation genetic testing...
Preimplantation genetic testing can be used in IVF to assess and select the genotype of embryos in order to avoid passing specific genetic disorders on to future children...
In a recent press statement on the use of preimplantation genetic testing of human embryos, the HFEA stated that 'Embryo selection is only legal in the UK to avoid serious inherited illnesses, usually by means of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis authorised by the HFEA, known as PGT-M or PGT-SR'…
There has been much professional and public debate about the use of so-called fertility treatment 'add-ons' over the years...
A recent large randomised trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine is receiving significant attention with clinicians who are critical of preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) claiming it provides evidence that PGT-A does not improve IVF outcomes and should not be used outside of research settings…
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