Egg screening ‘doubles chance of IVF success’

A SCOTTISH fertility clinic has introduced an egg screening test it claims can double the chance of IVF success for older women.

It offers women the chance to have their eggs tested for genetic abnormalities before they are implanted, in what it says is a first in Scotland.

The Glasgow Centre for Reproductive Medicine (GCRM), offering the pre-implantation genetic screening (PGS), said three quarters of failed IVF attempts are thought to be as a result of damaged eggs.

Dr Dagan Wells, whose company Reprogenetics UK helped develop the test, said: “Recent work has established that human embryos have a high frequency of abnormalities in their chromosomal constitution, which is why so many fail to implant or result in miscarriage.”