PRC Is First IVF Clinic in Nation With In-House aCGH Embryo-Testing Technology -- LOS ANGELES, May 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --: Pacific Reproductive Center, a southern California fertility medical practice founded in 1996, announced today that it is the first private in vitro fertilization clinic nationally to open an on-site laboratory with breakthrough technology – microarray comparative genomic hybridization – for analyzing human embryo chromosomes within 24 hours. The technology brings unprecedented levels of new hope for intended parents facing chronic infertility, repeated miscarriages, and increased risk of birth defects. Now scientists at PRC will be able to analyze all 23 chromosomes in an embryo within 24 hours. Historically, geneticists have had success in locating some genetic abnormalities in embryos but not in all chromosomes.
Editor: In other words, they'll be more effective weeding out "defective" embryos.
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