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The doctors involved in the treatment of infertility are asked to permit the procedure that is an alternative in vitro fertilization. The new technology promises to significantly improve the chances of pregnancy for women over 30 years. This happens due to the rejuvenation of the oocyte. The technology effectively returns youthfulness to old egg extracting fresh sets of “power supply” from the ovaries and putting them in old cells. The technology was developed in the USA.

It is a known fact that the chances of getting pregnant after IVF depends, among other things, on the woman’s age: the older she is, the lower the probability. For women under 35 years the probability is 32%, women 38-39 years old can get pregnant with a probability of about 21%, in 43-44 years the chances of getting pregnant drops to 5%, and after this age it falls to 2% or below. Thousands of infertile women between 30 and 40, as well as younger women with the same problem can overcome infertility. The new technology allows you to extract “batteries” of mitochondria from immature stem cells located in the ovaries, and enter them into oocytes or mature egg cells that is used during in vitro fertilization.

This technology is called Augment. It is still not allowed in the USA, as in need of thorough research. However, if the new technology is approved, it will be a grand breakthrough in the treatment of infertility, such as, for example, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, where individual sperm cells are injected directly into the unfertilized egg, which significantly increases the chances of getting pregnant.

This way seems to be promising. It can provide an unprecedented opportunity for women bear their own genetic child. But scientists have to spend a lot of time and work to make this procedure more effective from a financial point of view.