News from Day 2 of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine annual conference

New DNA test for embryos could boost IVF success rates

Scientists in Oxford have developed MitoGrade, a new test that can detect abnormally high levels of mitochondria in embryos and which could improve IVF success rates by ten percentage points. The research team is in the process of applying to the HFEA for a license to offer the procedure in Britain.

The Guardian

IVF and a link to ovarian cancer

IVF patients are a third more likely to develop ovarian cancer, according to the records of a quarter million IVF patients over the past two decades.

Daily Mail

Bad diets may be behind declining fertility rates - affecting even slim people

Poor diet is driving increasing fertility problems in Britain, the US and other wealthy countries, according to a Harvard study investigating the diets of 141 men trying to conceive through IVF.
 

The Telegraph