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Advances in IVF
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very parent wants their child to be delivered healthy and is able to live a healthy life. While living healthy after birth
depends upon many factors like nurturing, proper diet, health awareness, exercises, good sleep, and more, the
circumstances during the childbirth are quite different. There are things which one couldn’t control earlier, that is the
case of some defective genes in father, mother or in both. But with the advent of landmark IVF treatment and successive
progression towards its improvements have gifted this world many popular, sometimes controversial but effective medical
techniques that can prevent the transfer of faulty genes into the child and ensure a good health of baby on its arrival.
Karyomapping and three parents IVF are the few techniques which have even got the acceptance (both in legal and societal
aspect) in many countries, including the UK.
Karyomapping
People are often affected with lethal genetic diseases, which many a times transfer to their dear ones and drastically affect
their health and well-being. While in the process of expecting a child, its health is always a matter of great concern for the
families and especially for the parents. With hectic life schedule, bad food habits, work pressure, loneliness, depression, and
more, people often suffer from many life-threatening diseases like diabetes, mental illness, and many more.
No parent, even after knowing that they are suffering from a particular genetic disorder, will ever want to let affect the health
of their new baby in a negative way. Now with the advent of Karyomapping, a couple can avoid passing a genetic disorder on
to their offspring. In this revolutionary technique, embryos get screened before getting implanted into the mother’s womb
(uterus). This method is also known as pre-implantation genetic diagnosis or PGD for short.
In-vitro fertilization (IVF) is needed to carry out this technique successfully. In this process several eggs get collected from
the ovaries and then are fertilized outside the body using previously extracted sperm, to produce embryos. Each embryo is
then screened, on various parameters, to check its health. Karyomapping technique scrutinizes the chromosomes of the
mother, father, and the reference at 300,000 different points. Through this method, doctors can find the defective embryos and
precisely remove those from the IVF process. Only the embryos that are free from any genetic condition are transferred to the
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