Ivf - Worldwide Blog Preimplantation Sequencing: a new era for PGD/PGS?

Embryology has been again in the focus of news with the birth of a child after genome sequencing from a biopsied embryo was born. The birth was announced at the ESHRE, London, July 2013 as last minute, unpublished achievement, and has become a major sensation, breaking news in TVs, front page reports in leading journals all over the world.Although achievement was respectable, the reported priority was not entirely justified. Just in the previous abstract in the conference proceedings (that was available in printed form at the time of announcement; Li et al, Clinical application of massively parallel sequencing on chromosomal abnormalities detection of human blastocysts. Hum Reprod 2013, 28 (Suppl. 1): i26) BGI Shenzhen, China, in collaboration with CITIC Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, China has reported 7 babies after PGS with whole genome sequencing, and the number of births is growing exponentially. Maybe China is still far away for the Western world, but - getting closer...