Egg screening ‘doubles chance of IVF success’
It offers women the chance to have their eggs tested for genetic abnormalities before they are implanted, in what it says is a first in Scotland.
The Glasgow Centre for Reproductive Medicine (GCRM), offering the pre-implantation genetic screening (PGS), said three quarters of failed IVF attempts are thought to be as a result of damaged eggs.
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Hide AdDr Dagan Wells, whose company Reprogenetics UK helped develop the test, said: “Recent work has established that human embryos have a high frequency of abnormalities in their chromosomal constitution, which is why so many fail to implant or result in miscarriage.”