Sentences with phrase «early embryo quality»

Results showed that the intake of saturated fat was inversely related to the number of mature oocytes retrieved, while polyunsaturated fat consumption was inversely associated with early embryo quality.

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For example, embryologist Jacques Cohen, scientific director at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of Saint Barnabas in Livingston, New Jersey, has developed a procedure called cytoplasmic transfer that shows promise for assisting women approaching their early forties who either can't get pregnant through in vitro fertilization or have embryos of such poor quality they don't survive.

If you believe, for example, that granulosa cells and other very early features of ovarian ecology set up the polarities that ultimately determine the quality of a human egg, as Albertini does, then certain techniques widely used in IVF may be subtly perturbing the very mechanisms that eggs use to establish a plan to build an embryo and maximize the chances that it will develop properly.

Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP), led by the University of Adelaide, have successfully developed an advanced new imaging technique, which can help assess the quality of early - stage embryos.