- July 15, 2004
An IVF Nurse's Perspective
I started on my merry ride down this road 41 years ago. Back in Ireland, the career choices for young ladies were very limited. Teaching or Nursing. I chose the better part, nursing. Th...
Read More - June 30, 2004
Ask The Experts - Twins and Triplets
article body goes here **Q.** Considering how much trouble we're going through to get pregnant, I don't mind if we have twins, or even triplets. What do you think? , Intra...
Read More - June 5, 2004
President's Council Takes on the Ethics of ART
Many physicians working in the field of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) braced for the release of the latest and fifth report by the President's Council on Bioethics, which tak...
Read More - May 15, 2004
Pushing the Limits of Prenatal Portraiture
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Read More - May 8, 2004
PGD: An Alternative
We are the parents of a little boy with a rare, life-threatening, enzymatic disorder. He inherited this condition through genetic mutations passed along to him by us. Caused by a recess...
Read More - May 1, 2004
Paternal-Free Mice
We occasionally get asked by same sex couples if it is possible to create an embryo, and hence a baby, by using the DNA either from 2 sperm or 2 eggs, instead of the DNA from a sperm an...
Read More - April 30, 2004
PGD and PGS: Two Methods of Gaining Information Prior to Implantation
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a technique used to identify many inherited diseases. PGD uses DNA amplification to identify embryos with specific mutations of single genes, ...
Read More - April 19, 2004
PGD and PGS: Why Genetic Counseling is a Prerequisite
Couples who are at risk of passing on an inherited disease are probably familiar with genetic counselors. However, those who have decided to undergo IVF with Preimplantation Genetic Dia...
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