inviTRA Egg and sperm donation magazine
EmbryoScope is an incubator that uses the latest technology and allows to visualize the embryonic development uninterruptedly.
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What is it used for?
It is used in assisted reproduction treatments, such as IVF or ICSI. The fertilisation of the egg by spermatozoa is carried out in the laboratory. The culture of embryos is necessary; they are later set in a dish within the right agents inside the incubator. The incubators imitate the internal conditions of the uterus: the oxygen pressure, the carbon dioxide and the temperature (37ºC), until the embryo transference takes place.
Advantages
What makes EmbryoScope truly revolutionary, inside the area of assisted reproduction, is the incorporation of a camera that takes pictures automatically every 15 minutes, which makes the extraction of the embryo by the embryologist unnecessary to check its quality and evolution.
With the use of EmbryoScope, the improvement in the embryo’s quality can be observed, since, during their development, it’s possible that some alteration takes place, which will later be corrected. With the traditional system, this alteration would go unnoticed, unless the embryologist extracts the embryo in that precise moment and takes a look at it. As everything stays recorded in the EmbryoScope, the embryo development can be observed at any moment.
Improving the success rate: due to the characteristics of the EmbryoScope, the best quality embryos can be selected to carry out the transference, and the culture conditions are more stable. Furthermore, it’s been proved that the embryo’s cellular division rates are an indicator of their quality. All these advantages translate in a better embryo’s implantation rate, which consequently increases the pregnancy rate.
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