SAN FRANCISCO (September 23, 2008). The OosightTM is a new tool for the IVF Laboratory. Laurel Fertility Care has become possibly the first, and only, in vitro fertilization (IVF) program in the San Francisco Bay Area to incorporate the OosightTM into their routine IVF laboratory. The OosightTM, also known as a polscope, is installed on a high resolution microscope and allows the observer to identify the presence of the meiotic spindle within an egg. The spindle is associated with the chromosomes in the nucleus of the egg.
“Using the OosightTM, we can determine where the nucleus of the egg is when we do Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI).” The ICSI procedure is used following the removal of eggs from the ovaries, where a single sperm is injected into a single egg.
“This enables us to make sure we aren’t disrupting the nucleus during injection of sperm into the egg,” said Marlane Angle, PhD, the laboratory director at Laurel Fertility Care in San Francisco.
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