2023-04-30 18:44:14
The designers of the device thus hope to “democratize” in vitro fertilization
An American-Spanish startup has won its bet by carrying out fertilization in vitro automated, reported the MIT Technology Review. This company, which aims to make IVF accessible to everyone, has developed a robot capable of performing all the delicate and costly manipulations required by this procedure.
The feat was performed a few weeks ago at the New Hope Fertility Center clinic in New York by an engineer equipped with a simple PlayStation 5 controller, which he used to position a tiny remote-controlled needle containing a single sperm cell. and fertilize an egg.
During the experiment, a total of 12 eggs were fertilized, allowing the birth of two perfectly healthy little girls, who are thus the first babies born from robotic fertilization in vitro.
Startup Overture Life, which just raised $37 million, hopes its device will be the first step towards fully automating the IVF procedure, with the aim of making it more precise and cheaper.
In France, as everywhere in the world, in vitro fertilization remains an expensive medical procedure, which means that not all couples with fertility problems can have recourse to it.
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