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Embryo Selection Using Metabolomics

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Human Fertility

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1154))

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Faced with an increasing demand to select one embryo to transfer back to patients, a number of techniques are being developed to assist in discriminating differences within the cohort of a patient’s embryos. A new and emerging technology which allows us to measure the profile of different metabolites in embryo culture media and formulate a viability score correlated to implantation potential is metabolomics.

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  1. Boston IVF, 130 2nd Avenue, Waltham, MA, 02451, USA

    D. Sakkas

  2. Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Suite 302 FMB, New Haven, CT, 06520-8063, USA

    D. Sakkas

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  1. The Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA

    Zev Rosenwaks

  2. Dept. Developmental & Regenerative Biology, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA

    Paul M. Wassarman

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Sakkas, D. (2014). Embryo Selection Using Metabolomics. In: Rosenwaks, Z., Wassarman, P. (eds) Human Fertility. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1154. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0659-8_24

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