Thirty Years After First Test Tube Baby, Scientists Pursue Healthier Human Embryo

Posted on: Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 18:00 CDT LEXINGTON, Mass., July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- On the 30th anniversary of the birth of the world's first "test tube baby," Louise Brown of England, embryologists at one of the nation's largest in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics are conducting a clinical study aimed at the pursuit of a healthier human embryo with dramatically increased chances of full gestation to birth of a healthy baby. This month the Reproductive Science Center of New England partners with Molecular Biometrics, a privately-held company developing diagnostic tools to characterize biologic function in health and disease, to begin a clinical study of a process known as metabolomic profiling, an advanced means of assessing embryo viability. Success of the study may hold out hope that doctors can succeed in identifying a... [read full story]