Laurel Fertility Care Embryologists Invited to Present at AAB
Congratulations to Laurel Fertility Care Embryologist, Sean Pae, and Lab Director Dr. Marlane Angle for their invitation to present at the American Association of Bioanalysts annual meeting in Austin, Texas next month. Their presentation will include their abstract The Learning Curve Associated with Mastery of the Rapid I which explains the study training and mastery of vitrification and vitrification media. Cryopreservation of embryos using vitrification, as compared to slow cooling, is fast becoming the method of choice for many human In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) programs. To meet the growing demand, a number of commercial companies have introduced kits for vitrification with a range of cryoprotectant formulations and new vitrification devices. The study tests a new commercial vitrification media and vitrification device called Rapid I for efficacy using survival of the mouse embryo as a model system. The cross comparison of mouse embryo survival rates following vitrification in media from different vendors will provide a guide in selecting the vitrification media and device that best fits for its purpose and uses in the human IVF laboratory.
4 Tips to Protect Your Dreams of Motherhood and Mother Earth this Earth Day
This Earth Day, help Mother Earth while improving your chances of motherhood. “Women trying to conceive often forget the importance of taking care of themselves,” commented Dr. Lee Kao. “We often see patients who are so focused on caring for everything else that they actually decrease their success by not focusing on themselves first.”
On behalf of Laurel Fertility Care, below are four tips to help you on your journey to motherhood while making the Earth a better place to grow your family.
- Increase your veggies; decrease your red meat. Researchers reported, “shifting entirely from an average American diet to a vegetable-based diet would reduce the same emissions as 8,000 miles driven per year.” Harvard doctors suggest in The Fertility Diet to replace one meal of red meat with veggies per week to increase your fertility success. Read the rest of this article »
