Today, when I arrived, I found the building where I work all wrapped up in a huge ribbon. It’s Institut Marquès’ 90th anniversary!!! I’m excited to think about what this implies… all these years of well practiced gynecology, of a medical tradition that has reached its 4th generation… The importance of keeping medical and...
“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...
In Vitro Fertilization and Twins
Today I’d like to share the results of a survey we’ve carried out on our patients with you. We’ve asked up to one thousand patients from 31 different countries, all childless and with fertility troubles, if they would prefer to have twins, an only child, or if they didn’t mind either option. The results...
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...
Toxics In Maternal Milk
Today has been very special for me professional-wise! I carried out a press conference in order to present the results of a study that was published in Revista Internacional de Andrología. We analyzed and compared the concentration of 38 toxic substances in the maternal milk of both catalan and galician women in order to...
Why Is Male Fertility Decreasing?
For obvious reasons, us women are attracted to sperm. In my case, I am dedicated to the study of sterility, so lets say it’s a healthy attraction. For this reason, I have pushed my sterility team to investigate male infertility for ten years. Institut Marquès has been studying the quality of Spanish males’ sperm...
Why Does Our Mind Only Allow Us To See The Reality That We Already Know?
Before reading this, please watch the video and try and count how many times the players in white pass the ball. Then, please read the last sentence of this text and then you can start reading. Our eyes capture images, but what our brain actually sees is conditioned by what we know and what...
It Is Always The Woman’s Fault…
One must admit that in the last decades things have changed for the better and, nowadays, we can discuss a seminogram without any incidents. Four years ago, the School of Medics in Barcelona found out that a patient tried to assault me; more specifically, he tried to throw me out the window! Since they...