Infertile Couples Hope New Technology Helps Select Most Successful Embryos
By Michelle Munz,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
| 07. 05. 2015
The video is about 30 seconds long. Dawn Guhe has watched it at least 100 times. It captures the first five to six days of development of two of her now-frozen embryos that could be her best chance at having a baby after struggling for six years with infertility.
“I just put it in my laptop and push play and replay it over and over,” said Guhe, 35, of south St. Louis County. “It’s amazing watching this thing grow that could potentially be a person one day. It’s just nutty.”
The video is made possible by an EmbryoScope, a technology promising to improve the selection of embryos most likely to result in pregnancy and birth. The Missouri Center for Reproductive Medicine in Chesterfield installed the machine in March and is the only fertility center in the region (closest is Chicago) with the $150,000 technology.
More than 60,000 babies are born each year in the U.S. using in vitro fertilization, where an egg is fertilized outside the body and implanted in the uterus. Usually multiple eggs from a...
Related Articles
By Katherine Long, Ben Foldy, and Lingling Wei, The Wall Street Journal | 12.13.2025
Inside a closed Los Angeles courtroom, something wasn’t right.
Clerks working for family court Judge Amy Pellman were reviewing routine surrogacy petitions when they spotted an unusual pattern: the same name, again and again.
A Chinese billionaire was seeking parental...
By Sarah A. Topol, The New York Times Magazine | 12.14.2025
The women in House 3 rarely had a chance to speak to the women in House 5, but when they did, the things they heard scared them. They didn’t actually know where House 5 was, only that it was huge...
By Sarah Kliff, The New York Times | 12.10.2025
Micah Nerio had known since his early 30s that he wanted to be a father, even if he did not have a partner. He spent a decade saving up to pursue surrogacy, an expensive process where he would create embryos...
By Carter Sherman, The Guardian | 12.08.2025
A huge defense policy bill, revealed by US lawmakers on Sunday, does not include a provision that would have provided broad healthcare coverage for in vitro fertilization (IVF) for active-duty members of the military, despite Donald Trump’s pledge...
