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What is the Benefit of a Freeze-All Cycle?

A fresh embryo transfer occurs in the same IVF cycle in which the embryos were created (a “fresh” cycle). Any embryos remaining following a fresh embryo transfer can be frozen…

Healthy Baby Born From Embryo Frozen 24 Years Ago

Earlier this year, a mother in Tennessee gave birth to a healthy baby born from an embryo frozen 24 years ago. This remarkable case appears to represent the longest time frame…

Transfer of Cryopreserved Embryos is Safe and Highly Effective

Many couples are wary of using cryopreserved embryos believing that there are increased risks of health to the child and lower chance of a successful pregnancy. However, transfer of cryopreserved…

One Healthy Child At a Time

The mantra “one healthy child at a time” echoes in our actions and our words. Dissolving are the days of generating as many embryos as are feasibly in an IVF…

High Pregnancy Rates with Both Fresh and Frozen Embryos

In the last few years our ability to grow embryos for 5 days, at which point they are called blastocysts, has led to extremely high pregnancy rates with both fresh…

Lowering the Twin Rate in IVF

Many suffering from infertility, when faced with the prospect of IVF, desire twins in an attempt to expeditiously complete their family. Unfortunately, twin pregnancies do not always come out healthy…

Cryopreservation: What is it?

Cryopreservation (freezing) of embryos has been associated with IVF since its inception in the 1908’s. The use of Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) has resulted greater than 150,000 health births worldwide. …

Laser Assisted Hatching of Vitrified Embryos

A human egg or oocyte is surrounded by an outer protective shell known as the zona pellucida. As an embryo develops from zygote (day 1) to blastocyst (day 5), the…

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