To improve IVF, these scientists are looking at adding some womb fluids
Researchers trying to improve IVF have begun looking at how to make the Petri dish environment more like that of the fallopian tubes.
by Kate Sheridan
Jun 16, 2017
4 minutes
In vitro fertilization has been a huge success story in reproductive medicine. In just the last three decades it’s gone from a highly experimental treatment to one over 60,000 women in the U.S. use to conceive every year.
But it’s not perfect. Data have shown that infants conceived via IVF are at a slightly higher risk for some birth defects and genetic disorders, and are more likely to be born at low birth weight. One possible cause for these differences is epigenetics — that is, the markers that turn genes on and off. Scientists have noticed that IVF embryos have subtly different
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