Better Baby-Making: Picking the Healthiest Embryo for IVF [News]
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 16:42
in Health & Medicine
There's new hope for the more than 7 million American women (and their partners) who long for a child and are plagued by infertility. Australian researchers have developed a method for screening embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) to select the ones that have the best shot of developing into healthy babies. [More]
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