Fertility experts know that the more eggs retrieved from a woman, the better the chances that one of them will lead to a viable embryo that will result in the birth of a baby.
Now, a new study suggests something startling, even to many in the field: the conventional method of searching for eggs often fails to find all of them, and a new technology that automates the process may significantly increase the number recovered.
Using the conventional method, embryologists use high-powered microscopes to search the follicular fluid extracted from women in fertility clinics. The fluid is then discarded. The study, published in Nature Medicine on Thursday, reported that a device that uses microfluidic technology to sift through follicular fluid found additional eggs for more than half of the patients. (For the complete article please click on the link below):
