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Article: Study of children born after in vitro maturation indicates technique is safe.
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- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- July 24, 2003
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2003 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Children born after female eggs were matured in the laboratory are healthy, according to the first survey of babies born using this technique.
Dr. Anne Lis Mikkelsen, a consultant at the Fertility Clinic in Herlev, Denmark, reported the findings at the conference of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology on June 30, 2003.
Since 1997 doctors at the Fertility Clinic in Herlev have been helping women to have babies using a technique called in vitro maturation. This involves taking immature oocytes (eggs) from the women's ovaries and maturing them in the laboratory for between 28 and 36 hours. ...