Could egg defect breakthrough help stop the IVF rollercoaster?

Results of research offer hope to older women – but it will be several years at least before technique is approvedIt is a rollercoaster of emotional extremes that will be familiar to many who have gone through IVF treatment: hope and joy turns to despair and back again. This is especially true for women over the age of 35 years, when IVF success rates decline steeply and for whom the only real way to improve the odds is to keep trying.While IVF has undergone huge progress in the past decades, including the advent of genetic testing, egg freezing and techniques to overcome male infertility, the primary cause of age-related female infertility – egg quality – has not been directly addressed. Continue reading...