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Article: Research on assisted reproduction reported by scientists at University of Bonn.
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- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- December 4, 2008
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According to a study from Bonn, Germany, "Embryo viability is a key element for success in assisted reproduction. Since the beginning of the era of assisted reproduction treatment, embryo viability was mostly considered to be a function of developmental progression during the preimplantation phase."
"In the last decade, several morphological criteria of oocytes and embryos were evaluated with regard to their potential for predicting embryo viability. The introduction of polarization light microscopy systems in assisted reproduction has enabled the detection of structures within oocytes that possess a natural birefringence. Birefringence imaging of the meiotic ...