When I first began working in the fertility sphere, I felt like I was learning an entirely new language. Healthcare professionals and patients involved in fertility evaluations and treatments have to wrap their minds around a bevy of unusual words, complicated medical...
When parents who are at risk of having a child with an inherited genetic disease explore the option of having their embryos tested via preimplantation genetic testing (PGT), they are often surprised to learn that they have to start by creating those embryos with in...
Having a baby is expensive. But having a baby with the help a fertility clinic may seem out of reach for many couples, even when they are at risk for having a child with a genetic disease. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), mostly referred to now as...
Recent advances in assisted reproductive technology (ART) — like in-vitro fertilization (IVF) paired with preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) — provide intended parents at-risk for having a child with a genetic disease the option of screening embryos. By determining...
When you first begin the preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) process, you may not think about what happens after embryo transfer or the possibility of having extra embryos for a future frozen embryo transfer. However, if you do have embryos that weren’t used...
