In recent years, microfluidics has demonstrated novel methods of culturing and studying cells. Within welldefined volumes comparable to the sample of interest, media, nutrients or toxins may be precisely targeted to individual cells via diffusion or advection, enabled by integrated valves and pumps. Tools, which both enable a repeatable and systematic means of single embryo culture, as well as ...

Background Traditionally, embryo incubation and assessment daily has been under a light microscope, these observations are inevitably restricted to specific times and considering that the development of the embryo is a dynamic process, several critical stages in between observations may go unnoticed. For this reason, the new technologies, time lapse monitoring, have focused on the research for ...

Abstract Background The embryology laboratory remains one of the primary factors influencing overall performance IVF clinic. Clinical embryology, however, has undergone remarkable advancements over last decade. These developments in both practice and education have been driven together by science technology. Main body changes clinical created a significant challenge for profession embryologist....

Method : It was a prospective study done from September 2011 to May 2012 in the Department of Reproductive Medicine at a tertiary care hospital. Sixty patients undergoing assisted reproductive cycles either with agonist or antagonist protocol were included in this study. Follicles were subdivided into four arbitary groups according to their mean two dimension size, >21 mm, 16-20 mm, 12-15 mm an...

Viktor Hamburger [5] was an embryologist who focused on neural development [6]. His scientific career stretched from the early 1920s as a student of Hans Spemann [7] to the late 1980s at Washington University [8] resolving the role of nerve growth factor [9] in the life of neurons. Hamburger is noted for his systematic approach to science and a strict attention to detail. Throughout his life he...

Abstract Study question Would patients with fresh and frozen embryo transfer had achieved pregnancy before if the was chosen by AI? Summary answer CHLOE (AI) can predict pregnancy, ongoing clinical miscarriage following a single (SET). What is known already The use of time-lapse incubators has provided embryologists more information to evaluate development, resulting in varying practices among ...

It is with deep sadness that we write that Dr. Soledad Sepúlveda passed away earlier this summer (or give date). Sole was among the earliest pioneers in Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Latin America and her premature departure has caused great sadness for all of us who loved and admired her. After Louise Brown ́s birth in 1978, the first IVF birth in Latin America succeeded in 1985. Ten ye...