Yale Fertility Expert Finds Genetic Markers Of An Egg’s Maturity
Fertility experts like Pasquale Patrizio, M.D. of the Yale School of Medicine have long been interested in understanding why so few human eggs harvested during in vitro fertilization result in pregnancies. “The two big questions are why so few eggs produce live births and can we one day identify the best one among the many that look alike?” Patrizio said. “To do so we needed to understand the genetic make up of eggs first.
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Filed under: Fertility on April 17th, 2008