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Watching an Embryo Develop
Our work at Hanabusa IVF is devoted to helping create embryos for implantation, so we were delighted to be able to see a video of an embryo—albeit a mouse embryo—in development. A recent New York Times article featured this new break through—originally published in Cell—by a team of researchers and scientists who developed a high-resolution…
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Two New Memoirs about Infertility
Everyone has a story. And the more people begin to open up about struggles with infertility, the more varied and individual the stories become. Perhaps it’s no surprise then that a series of newly-released memoirs chronicling women’s journey’s to motherhood and their experiences with IVF and reproductive assistance have been hitting bookshelves. As the age…
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Sperm Awareness
While fertility and the culture of all things related to fertility have mostly been the domain of women, with women freezing their eggs and taking fertility tests to determine their egg reserves, men are beginning to take note and so too is a new industry, one that is developing male fertility products and a culture…
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Egg-Freezing and the Search for a Partner
For years, the reproductive assistance industry which includes IVF and egg freezing have had a misconception about the reason why women are freezing their eggs. The assumption was that because women were looking to advance their careers, they were delaying motherhood and instead taking advantage of new egg freezing technology to preserve their fertility. Because…
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Celebrating 40 years of IVF
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the first successful IVF baby, or test-tube baby as the news media called the newborn. According to the International Committee Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technologies, 8 million IVF babies have been born via IVF over the last forty years, and still more might be unaccounted for in China and India. It’s…
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IVF and Mosaic Embryos
New hope for IVF comes in the form of mosaic embryos, which more and more women are opting to implant. Mosaic embryos are those that are neither fully normal or fully abnormal. Instead, they include some abnormal cells which often correct or repair themselves during gestation. While it’s a risk—one that involves miscarriage—many women are…
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April and National Infertility Awareness Week (April 22-28, 2018)
April is here, and so is spring, and while it is the season of rebirth and abundance, for anyone dealing with infertility it can also be a season of difficulty. As research continues into the causes and cures for infertility, we at Hanabusa IVF welcome April as the month that not only ushers in flowers…
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The “Zinc” Spark of Life
The “Zinc” Spark of Life Life, like the universe, begins with light. While this may sound more poetic than scientific, a new study has found that a burst of light is visible when a sperm fertilizes an egg. Even more, when that burst of light is significantly larger than other surrounding fertilized eggs, the healthier…
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2019 Continues to Usher in New Experimental Treatments to Treat Infertility and POF
Forty years after the first successful IVF procedure, scientists and researchers continue to discover new exciting ways to treat infertility in women of all ages, including menopausal women. In one of the latest, more promising experimental treatments, eggs of menopausal women (deemed “leftover” eggs) are being used to produce viable eggs for IVF treatment. While…