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Keynote
2020
Januar y
12-2 3
Personalized Medicine in the Reproductive Area
DESCRIPTION
In the last forty years, the knowledge of human reproduction has benefited a huge development. The human extra-
corporeal fertilization leads to discover the beginning of life who was invisible and untouchable until the first in vitro
fertilization (1978). The ovulation process, the fecundability of oocytes and the quality of the ovarian reserve beside
the uterus capacity are now better to understand. The sperm characteristic and the process of embryo implantation
remain unclear. The genetic assessment of the embryo capacity, the freezing of oocytes and embryo are the new tool
of a prolonged period of fertility. The capacity for the human embryo to develop until a healthy baby is in a large part
the consequence of the environment (Tabaco, Alcool, Nutrition, Stress...). We know for an infertile couple the necessi-
ty to be considered as a specific situation with a global approach more scientific in one hand and more human in the
others. Ethic consideration must be also discussed in front of such new possibilities as sex selection, modification of
the genome, uterus transplantation, editing futures characteristic (transhumanism). The question is no more how to
do but why to do such modification.
A personalized approach in medicine is mandatory and especially in infertility assessment.
SPEAKER Rene Frydman
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hôpitaux de Paris
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