Fertility and Sterility
Volume 84, Issue 6 , Pages 1628-1636 , December 2005

Pregnancies and live births after trophectoderm biopsy and preimplantation genetic testing of human blastocysts

Presented in part at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Fertility Society of Australia, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, October 23–26, 2002.

Received 15 December 2004 ,Revised 24 May 2005 ,Accepted 24 May 2005.

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 The Sydney IVF culture medium suite is licensed for manufacture to William A. Cook (Australia) and Cook Ob/Gyn (Spencer, IN) by Sydney IVF Limited. Live birth data at Sydney IVF are verified through random sampling by the auditing firm Ernst and Young, Sydney, Australia.

PII: S0015-0282(05)03035-9

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.05.063

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 84, Issue 6 , Pages 1628-1636 , December 2005

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