World’s first pregnancy from using new IVF egg screening tech

From the Guardian:

A British woman has become the first in the world to conceive using a new IVF technique that could more than double the success rate of pregnancies.

The 41-year-old woman was treated after suffering two miscarriages and having 13 courses of IVF, none of which led to a baby.

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The process uses a laser to make a small incision in the outer membrane of the egg, from which doctors can extract the polar body containing the 23 chromosomes that were expelled before fertilisation. The doctors then use a computer-driven screening process to check if all of the chromosomes are present.

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