What destination would you give to your frozen embryos if you did not wish to have any more children? Please imagine the following scenario: you have two children born after an IVF cycle and you do not want to have any more children, but after the cycle there are still three frozen surplus embryos....
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Fresh or frozen embryos? Which is best?
Today the Director of our Laboratory, presented the results from last year and I am really amazed, because the pregnancy rate per transfer were the same regardless whether fresh or frozen (vitrified) embryos were used. And that is including embryos that have been frozen twice! This occurs when we defreeze more embryos than the...
IVF to the Beat of the Music. We Have Made our Embryos Dance
I couldn’t imagine the enormous impact of the publication of the results of the In vitro Fertilization with music, both among colleagues from other centers, our patients and the media. Once the scientific study was presented at the European Society of Human Reproduction’s congress (ESHRE) in July 2013, the doctors were dying of desire to talk...
Music enhances In Vitro Fertilisation
We’ve conducted a study showing that musical vibrations increase the chances that the sperm fertilises the egg, ie that music improves IVF. We’ll present these findings at the European Congress of Sterility (ESHRE) that will take place from the 7th to the 10th of July in London. The idea came thanks to you, because...
Frozen Embryos: How do They Live?
As we have learned from our patients’ comments, they know very little about how frozen embryos live. Some imagine walls full of shelves with little mini-bunks, others imagine rooms like huge fridges, others little capsules placed in beehive-like structures… truth is, they’re microscopic so they virtually take up no space. In one of the...
Embryomobile
Four months have gone since our patients can watch their embryos from home whenever they want to. When we set the idea in motion, we didn’t know how they’d react… and today all the gynecologists in our sterility team have come together to comment on it… The most repeated word in the meeting was...
“Embryo’s Big Brother”
The National Sterility Congress is taking place this week, and one of Institut Marquès’ contributions consists of our learnings on the embryos thanks to the Embryoscope. When our center’s biologists come into the In Vitro Fertilization lab every morning they are fascinated by every embryo’s video. These images are so shocking that we have...
Resting After Embryo Transfer
This week we’re presenting a beautiful study in London, which has been awarded for being the Best Oral Presentation in the Congress and we would like to thank all colleagues that have taken part in it. The study shows what happens to embryos when they get to the uterus, both naturally through the fallopian...
Embryoscope: The movie of the beginning of life
Embryoscope is a new incubator for our small embryos that includes an incorporated video camera to film their development. In the medical field, it offers us two main advantages: First, we no longer need to remove the embryos from the incubator to watch them under a microscope. Thus, we can prevent any changes in...
The In Vitro Fertilisation Lab Is A Giant Uterus
Today, I want to show you around our IVF Lab, how we have made it into a giant uterus and how one must work in it. First, I must ask you to imagine the inside of a uterus… How lit up is it? Well, it isn’t at all, so our lab recreates its...
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