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Breaking Fertility News
Today's Research Is Tomorrow's Treatments
By Teri Brown
The Best Egg for the Job"PGD was originally designed to assist couples with single gene disorders (e.g. cystic fibrosis) to avoid transferring embryos that carried a known mutation of the mother and/or father," Dr. Whitten says. "There are now over 100 genetic disorders that can be identified with this technique.
Dr. Geoffrey Sher, who along with Levent Keskintepe, Ph.D., both of ReproCure LLC and the Sher Institutes for Reproductive MedicineSM, have developed a process that by completely analyzing the chromosomal make-up of the human egg and embryo, allows identification of that embryo that will develop into a healthy baby. Using a method known as Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) to identify chromosomally normal eggs allows researchers to identify "competent" eggs, which are then fertilized and allowed to develop into embryos.
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