Watch your IVF embryos develop in a phone app? Maybe someday.

A new smartphone app could allow doctors and would-be parents receiving in vitro fertilization treatment to monitor the growth of embryos in a lab thousands of miles away.

The technology, being developed by Sydney-based Genea, is the latest example of how innovation in the global IVF industry—tipped by some analysts to be worth US$14 billion in 2020—is gathering pace. It …

The future direction of IVF

An article in the New York Times reviews the pros and cons of methods of selection of the embryo most likely to result in a health baby.

And this appears to be the future direction of IVF: embryo selection to facilitate single embryo transfer (eSET) resulting in a dramatic reduction of multiple pregnancy without reducing success rates.

Chromosomal testing (PGS) …