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| Scientists hail IVF breakthrough in non-invasive test that could slash 'big element of chance' involved in getting pregnant | |
| 2024-01-12 | |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] They can grow brains, but not babies. SKYNET smiles.
Currently, the fertility treatment has a success rate of up to 40 per cent. Academics based at the University of California San Diego have now developed a new non-invasive that can assess the quality of lab-grown embryos. At present, fertility doctors typically have to carefully analyse embryos to pick out ones with the best chance of success. This can involve taking biopsies or visually assessing them, both of which can be problematic. The new technique, although still in its infancy, avoids interfering with the 'delicate process'. Particles of genetic material, known as exRNAs, are left behind in petri dishes used to grow eggs that have been fertilised in the lab. This allows scientists to inspect them without relying on biopsies of the embryos or visual characteristics. The researchers also identified around 4,000 different exRNA molecules for each of five different stages in an embryo’s development. Using this range of molecules they were then able to measure the morphology — the form, shape and structure — of the embryo as accurately as more invasive tests, they said. Professor Sheng Zhong, an expert in bioengineering from the university's school of enginerring, said: 'We were surprised by how many exRNAs were produced so early in embryonic development, and how much of that activity we could detect using such a minute sample. | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #5 At present, fertility doctors typically have to carefully analyse embryos to pick out ones with the best chance of success. This can involve taking biopsies or visually assessing them, both of which can be problematic. Especially for the embryos. What happens to those with no chance for success? ..are left behind in petri dishes used to grow eggs that have been fertilised in the lab. The little one won't know his parents until The Last Day. What a reunion that'll be! Remember the Unborn! |
| Posted by: Maggie Lumumba4575 2024-01-12 19:07 |
| #4 40 per cent I seem to think the effectivity rate of the traditional method is higher. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-01-12 13:52 |
| #3 There is Yin and Yang to all things. So, how will this be used by the New Normal World Order? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2024-01-12 08:51 |
| #2 Babies require a lot of care and feeding but can't do much work. Growing them into intelligent, hard-working adults requires several ingredients modern society is hell-bent on banishing from the equation. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-01-12 08:15 |
| #1 Yep, Gates has gotta be in there somewhere. Decrease population even more. Be like Japan with negative growth. Putin of course has gotten it wrong by offering women money to have babies. Muslims couldn't care less. Numbers game and they are winning. |
| Posted by: Dale 2024-01-12 07:41 |