First babies born in IVF full gene screening study

First babies born in IVF full gene screening study | Reuters: Two women have given birth to healthy babies from eggs screened for genetic defects before being implanted in the womb, in a study of a new technique that could improve the success rate of in-vitro fertilization. The technique is a new way of screening eggs and embryos for genetic defects to increase the odds a woman achieves a healthy pregnancy from in-vitro fertilization (IVF), when eggs are fertilized with sperm in a lab dish and implanted into her womb.

'We have learnt from more than 30 years of IVF that many of the embryos we transfer have chromosome abnormalities,' Luca Gianaroli, chairman of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) and one of the scientists who worked on the study.

Editor: The article is not clear about what's being studied, eggs or embryos? Eggs are not implanted in the womb; embryos are. I wish reporters and editors were more precise. Here's a better description: "With CGH, a sample taken from an egg (the oocyte polar body) or a single cell of a blastocyst stage embryo is compared to a normal control sample."