New IVF technique lowers risk of triplets, quads

  • 30/09/1998

Nineteen women have become pregnant-and one has already delivered a healthy baby boy-as a result of a new in vitro fertilization (IVF) technique developed at Stanford to minimize the risk of multiple births, researchers reported in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. The new technique uses a specialized culture that can nurture embryos in the lab for five days rather than the usual three days.