Reproductive Partners Fertility Blog » PGS http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog Helping couples acheive the dream of being parents. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:33:43 +0000 en hourly 1 Day 5 embryo biopsy for PGD or PGS less harmful to embryo than Day 3 http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/782/day-5-embryo-biopsy-for-pgd-or-pgs-less-harmful-to-embryo-than-day-3.html http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/782/day-5-embryo-biopsy-for-pgd-or-pgs-less-harmful-to-embryo-than-day-3.html#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:27:58 +0000 Dr. Arthur Wisot FACOG http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/?p=782 A study presented at the American Society of Reproductive Medicine Conference in Orlando last week, aimed to compare the safety and efficacy of embryo biopsies conducted for the purposes of screening for genetic disease at day 3 (cleavage stage) versus day 5 (blastocyst stage) of embryonic development. The impact that biopsy has on an embryo's ability to implant and develop …

]]> http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/782/day-5-embryo-biopsy-for-pgd-or-pgs-less-harmful-to-embryo-than-day-3.html/feed 0 Reproductive Partners website is now in Chinese http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/632/reproductive-partners-website-is-now-in-chinese.html http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/632/reproductive-partners-website-is-now-in-chinese.html#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 18:03:03 +0000 Dr. Arthur Wisot FACOG http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/?p=632 Reproductive Partners Medical Group, Inc. is pleased to announce that our website is available in Mandarin Chinese. Look for the box on the Home Page to link to the Chinese version.

There has been a lot of interest in IVF technology in China. Our doctors Rosen and Yee have been invited to lecture later this month in Beijing on the …

]]> http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/632/reproductive-partners-website-is-now-in-chinese.html/feed 0 Question on Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) for PGS http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/468/question-on-comparative-genomic-hybridization-cgh-for-pgs.html http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/468/question-on-comparative-genomic-hybridization-cgh-for-pgs.html#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:15:16 +0000 Dr. Arthur Wisot FACOG http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/?p=468 An interesting question on the Reproductive Partners Fertility Forum about possiblility of doing preimpantation geneic screening for chromosomes (PGS) on frozen blastocysts raises some important points.

Q. I currently have frozen embryo's in La Jolla, we have a 17 month old son and are now starting to discuss a second child. My question is if CGH can be perfomed on …

]]> http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/468/question-on-comparative-genomic-hybridization-cgh-for-pgs.html/feed 0 RPMG moves to CGH for PGS for chromosomes http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/383/rpmg-moves-to-cgh-for-pgs-for-chromosomes.html http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/383/rpmg-moves-to-cgh-for-pgs-for-chromosomes.html#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:20:13 +0000 Dr. Arthur Wisot FACOG http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/?p=383 RPMG will now be using comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) for preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) for chromosome screening of embryos (including for sex selection). CGH is a technique that involves amplifying the DNA and uses many thousands of probes to check all 23 chromosome pairs. As long as an intact nucleus is biopsied, it is virtually error-free, whereas with the older …

]]> http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/383/rpmg-moves-to-cgh-for-pgs-for-chromosomes.html/feed 0 Does preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) improve IVF success rates in women over 35? http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/338/does-preimplantation-genetic-screening-pgs-improve-ivf-success-rates-in-women-over-35.html http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/338/does-preimplantation-genetic-screening-pgs-improve-ivf-success-rates-in-women-over-35.html#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:56:46 +0000 Dr. Arthur Wisot FACOG http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/?p=338 Some fertility centers promote preimplantation genetic screening as a way of improving IVF success rates in women over 35 (defining advanced maternal age).

Now a study in the January 2010 edition of Fertility & Sterility shows that PGS does not significantly improve implantation, pregnancy or live birth rates. In this randomized control study from Belgium, the clinical implantation rate per embryo …

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Reproductive Partners was cited in an article in the November 2009 issue of ELLE magazine, “Girl Crazy: Women Who Suffer from Gender Disappointment.” The article profiles women whose lives are disrupted because they have not been able to have the girl child that they are craving. According to the author, they resort to a variety of techniques to try to …

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