- Promising embryos found to give off a chemical called trypsin
- Its function appears to be to prepare the womb for implantation
- If none is detected the womb appears to responds by rejecting embryo
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Daily Mail Reporter
02:16 EST, 10 February 2014
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03:43 EST, 10 February 2014
Scientists have discovered a chemical signal that can predict whether an embryo will be accepted by the womb, which they hope could dramatically improve the success rates of IVF treatment.
Embryos, which were deemed the most promising were found to give off a chemical called trypsin, the function of which is to prepare the womb prior to implantation.
If no trypsin is detected the womb responds by appearing to issue an ‘alarm response’ which eliminates what is perceived to be a genetically flawed embryo.
Breakthrough: Scientists have detected a chemical signal given off by embryos that appear to predict whether IVF will succeed
Currently less than 30 per cent of IVF cycles successfully result in the birth of a healthy baby, the Times reports.
Nick Macklon, professor of obsterics and gynaecology at the University of Southampton told the newspaper: ‘Only about one third of the top-quality embryos are implanting, which means there’s a lot of room for improvement.’
At present, there are only basic measures available to predict the chances of a patient having a successful pregnancy.
These include the patient’s age, medical and genetic history and existing statistics on the percentage of IVF cycles which succeed.
Often doctors will select a healthy embryo during IVF only for a woman to suffer an unexplained miscarriage.
This means many couples endure several rounds of treatment in the hope of a successful pregnancy.
The new findings could go a long way to explain why some women suffer miscarriages and others fail to get pregnant.
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RandomSnapper,
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1 hour ago
Medical advancement never ceases to amaze!! Hopefully this will save some women the pain of going through a flunk invetro!!
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