Lab touring - Embryo biopsy (pipet shearing)
July 22, 2015Video one:
Video two:
Biopsy is extremely crucial technique in IVF-PGS cycles. In Stork fertility center, for example, one in twenty to twenty-one biopsied samples may fail to be amplified. The videos showed one of the biopsy techniques — pipet shearing. In this kind of manipulation, both biopsied cell amount and quality are of the essences.
The biopsied sample in video one resulted in amplification failure, and the cells seemed degenerated yet. In contrast, biopsied sample in video two resulted in successful amplification.