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Which embryos have the best opportunity to develop into a viable pregnancy?             A new technology provides a surprising answer or challenge in the field of IVF is selecting the single best embryo which is likely to result in a live birth. Currently, embryologists must remove the embryo from a standard incubator to perform 2 or 3 short evaluations of the developing embryo under the microscope, at fixed time-points over 3-5 days, in order to assess embryo quality prior to transferring an embryo to the patient.    The EmbryoScope(R) Time-lapse system generates a movie allowing embryologists to monitor various characteristics of the embryo development over the entire incubation period, while maintaining optimum incubation conditions in a state-of-the-art incubator. According to breakthrough scientific results, embryos which exhibit irregular division patterns have a much lower pregnancy potential. The results w...

"Produce a baby, instead of raising a dog." This was the call of psychologist Frieda Birnbaum, a 60-year-old American mom who gave birth Tuesday to a twin sons through a Cesarean section at Hackensack University Medical Center. While most of the older folk prefer to raise dogs or adopt children, the mother of three just decided to become pregnant, instead. At least, it's one best way of sacrificing one's time to a fruitful endeavor than to take care of animals like dogs to erase boredom or loneliness at home. Many would agree that a dog is a man's best friend. But pragmatically, there's nothing much better than rearing a human being, especially he or she is your own. Just consider the amount of time and money that one will spend to keep the dog in tip-top shape. Why don't consider the idea of adopting or better yet to under the same process Birnhaum did to have a baby? However, not many will be sold to the idea owing to some health risks involved in the ...