IVF News

News: Panel calls for state-funded IVF in Ontario Leading fertility and adoption experts have called upon the Canadian government to fund three cycles of IVF for women under 42 in the state of Ontario. The Ontario Expert Panel on Fertility and Adoption, which released its report last week, recommended the province should fund IVF as well as including proposals to reform the adoption system. Louise Mellon 06 September 2009 - 0 Comments.

News: British couples can choose baby's sex in US clinic A fertility clinic in the USA has revealed that it provides sex selection to many British couples who pay large amounts of money to travel and receive the service. Sarah Guy 06 September 2009 - 0 Comments.

News: CRi Oosight™ Imaging System a Key to Breakthrough Gene Replacement Method With Potential To Prevent Inherited Mitochondrial Diseases U.S. researchers using CRi's Oosight™ imaging system have developed a gene transfer technique that has potential to prevent inherited diseases passed on from mothers to their children through mutated DNA in cell mitochondria. The research, which demonstrated the technique in rhesus monkeys, appears in the Aug. 26 issue of the journal Nature. Cathy Boutin 31 August 2009 - 0 Comments.

IVF Jobs

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#	Position	Closing Date
1	Fertility/Gynaecology Nurse   Create Health Clinic West Wimbledon, United Kingdom	When the position is filled.
2	IVF Specialist/Senior Clinical Fellow in Reproductive Medicine   Create Health West Wimbledon, United Kingdom	When the position is filled.
3	Trainee Clinical Embryologist Embryology Exeter, United Kingdom	14th September 2009
4	Senior Fertility Nurse/Sister Benenden Hospital Trust Cranbrook, Kent, United Kingdom	2 October 2009
5	IVF Laboratory Manager PIVET Medical Centre Leederville PERTH, Australia	30 September 2009
6	Fertility Nurse Isis Fertility Centre Colchester, United Kingdom	30.9.09
7	Experienced Clinical Embryologist - Short Term or Long Term Repromed NZ Auckland, New Zealand	When filled
8	Experienced Senior/Clinical Embryologists and Trainee Embryologist London Women's Clinic London, United Kingdom	Until position is filled
9	ANDROLOGIST (PART TIME) Herts and Essex Fertility Centre Cheshunt, United Kingdom	When position filled
10	Senior Clinical Embryologist Benenden Fertility Centre Benenden , Cranbrook, United Kingdom	When position is filled
11	Senior Embryologist ISIS CLINIC Nicosia, Cyprus

Resumes

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#	Title	Country	Photo
1	Nora Alsaffar Embryologist/andrologist	Australia	-
	"seeking opportunities to further my career in reproductive health."
2	Thomas Vadingadu Free Lance Embryologist	India	-
3	SUJOY NAYAK EMBRYOLOGIST	India	-
	"Objective : To serve best of my aptitudes in the top most organization which provides plenty of opportunities for organizational and individual growth."
4	Irina Dulaeva obstetrician gynecologist	Nigeria	-
	"Im an obstetrician gynecologist with good experience working in maternity hospital"
5	nishma dahal research	India	-
6	Aqeela Abuidrees trainee embryologist	Bahrain
7	Georgi Doychev embryologist	Bulgaria	-
8	Elizabeth Homer Trainee Embryologist/ Laboratory Technician	United Kingdom	-
	"Keen graduate looking for a position as trainee embryologist."
9	DEENE VISHNUKANTH SENIOR EMBRYOLOGIST	India	-
	"To serve a position under a progressive and dynamic organisation to utilize my skills in a challenging manner"
10	Dr Suran Rajapakse Freelancing Embryologist &/or Embryology team	Sri Lanka	-
	"To become an freelancing embryologist and provide the services in setting up clinics,starting new techniques and help in refining the current practices in your clinics. Also I can provide the service of my full embryology team including the laboratory assistant service."

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#	Title	Date Added		Replies
1	Looking to buy used IVF equipments	06 September 2009		0
	We are looking for used Narishige micromanipulator, CO2 incubator, laminar flow hood, sperm and embrio freezers, etc. Kindly contact with the specifications of the equipment and the expected price. Karen [ Reply here ]
2	question and inquiry	02 September 2009		1
	Hi ,   my name is Talha , currently working as Embryologist in a pharma , I want to ask that how will be sperms counted if there are 40 -50  million sperms phpf i mean will the sperms  be in thousands expressed, i.e what wil be count actually if the count is mentioned bove ,  i am actually not been able to diffrentite 40-50 million per ml and phpf how wil I count it . The other one is regarding Halo Sperm kit , can some body give me technical information , about it .. talha [ Reply here ]
3	embryo corral dishes	31 August 2009		0
	does anyone have experience with the embryo corral dishes? janis moessner [ Reply here ]

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Re: Question and inquiry
A few comments on sperm counting using the sperm per hpf method. From the ESHRE Monographs Manual on Basic Semen Analysis, June 2002, in the section discussing sperm concentration, the text states that 4 sperm per high powered field corresponds roughly to a concentration of 1 m/ml. So if you are counting 40 to 50 sperm phf, then you could assume that the concentration would be approximately 10 to 13 m/ml. This is also assuming that you are using 400X magnification, given that your field of vision is 500 micrometers in diameter, and given that you are using 6 microliter volume of well mixed semen under an 18x18 coverslip on a glass slide. The text states also that older microscopes may have different diameter fields of vision. So, there is a lot of room for error using this method. Yes, this method is likely ok for qualitative semen analysis - a screening method perhaps. But I would consider an alternate method for more accuracy and precision.

The second part to your question regarding the Halosperm kit, this test allows the user to perform sperm decondensation testing, reflecting sperm DNA fragmentation, in-house, using either brightfield microscopy or flurorescent microscopy. The test is fairly easy to perform, with very good step-by-step instructions. Reading the slides is like reading a version of a stained morphology, so you can expect to have a learning curve, with refinement of inter- and intra-technician variation over time. As more programs use the test, and compare the results to clinical outcomes, and assuming we can share information between all of us, then the true utility of this assay can be determined. Like any clinical test, you\'ll have to decide how best to use the data in your setting.

Mike
Michael L Reed Center for Reproductive Medicine of New Mexico

Re: Treatment for spermatocyte I maturation arrest
In-vitro spermatogenesis resumption in men with maturation arrest: relationship with in-vivo blocking stage and serum FSH

Jan Tesarik, Basak Balaban, Aycan Isiklar, Cengiz Alatas, Bülent Urman, Senai Aksoy, Carmen Mendoza and Ermanno Greco
Dr Mohit