Category: Hanabusa IVF
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“Mindful” Holidays and a “Mindful” New Year
This is the time of year when everyone is making a list and checking it twice. With endless “To Do” lists, “gift” lists, “holiday card” lists, “holiday food shopping” lists, one’s life can seem like a never-ending list. For anyone who is also dealing with infertility at this time of year, life can seem more…
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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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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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Open letter from our laboratory director
Dear Patient, In response to the recent reports of the failure of liquid nitrogen storage tanks at two prominent IVF centers in the US, we at Hanabusa IVF wanted to reach out to all of our patients to assure that your frozen specimens are safe at our facility. We feel confident that the systems we…