European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology

New method of testing eggs for abnormalities could solve problems of embryo freezing

Published in Patient Care Law Weekly, July 16th, 2006

Italian researchers have shown for the first time that it is possible to test a woman's egg, before fertilization, for chromosomal abnormalities that might make an embryo less likely to implant successfully or more likely to miscarry at a later stage.

The technique involves analyzing the first polar body, a small membrane-bound cellular structure that is expelled from the mature egg (oocyte) before fertilization, and which mirrors the chromosomal status of the egg.

Dr. Anna Pia Ferraretti told the 22nd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction that, since the change in the Italian law in 2004, doctors were banned from discarding...

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Source: Patient Care Law Weekly (2006-07-16)

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