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New IVF screening treatment 'a success'
Tuesday, 20th October 2009
IVF success rates have been improved by a new egg screening test, it has been reported.
Researchers at Oxford University, UK, say 20 babies have now been born using a technique which screens embryos for genetic faults and allows the best specimens to be selected for use.
The comparative genomic hybridisation (CGH) test is currently available only through private clinics, but doctors hope to make it more widely available.
Dr Dagan Wells, who led the study, told the American Society of Reproductive Medicine's annual conference that the research team had been taken aback by the impact the treatment has had on IVF success rates.
"I think it's at the point now that we can say with great confidence that we are seeing a positive effect of this," he claimed.
In related news, researchers at Michigan State University, US, have reported that obesity decreases the likelihood of IVF treatment proving successful.
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