Embryo culture with Time Lapse
Time Lapse Technology
What does embryo culture with Time Lapse technology consist of?
Assisted reproductive technology is constantly evolving, with new research, new diagnostic systems, new culture systems, etcetera.
At IREMA we have the most advanced technology, such as the Time Lapse incubator for embryo culture. This type of incubator provides us with advantages that we did not have until recently.
This is a state-of-the-art incubator, in which the developing embryo is photographed every five minutes, in eleven different shots, allowing us to have a film of its evolution during the days it is in culture.
Geri's time lapse incubator provides several important advantages:
– The culture is continuous and we do not have to extract the embryos from the incubator to observe them daily under the microscope, so their conditions will be more stable, without temperature or pH variations. In this way, the embryo will have a better development.
– It detects at any time any change that occurs in the embryo. An important aspect, for example, to assess fertilization, since this occurs within a certain range of hours, and not always at the same times.
– We can observe the kinetics of the embryo, and in this way, select it, without basing ourselves solely on morphology. The optimal embryo has certain division rhythms, and anything that differs from these rhythms implies a decrease in its implantation capacity, which helps us in embryo selection.
– In addition, artificial intelligence is currently gaining more and more importance, thanks to which we can compare our embryo with the development of thousands of other embryos whose implantation capacity is known, so that the system can automatically indicate which embryos have a greater capacity to implant in the maternal uterus.
– And of course, the video can be exported and given to patients so that they can have the images of the first divisions of their embryos.l
At IREMA we have the GERI incubator with Time Lapse, formed by different independent chambers for each user, which allows us to avoid temperature and pH variations in the embryos of one patient when we are working on another case.
All this translates into increased success rates compared to classical embryo culture. It therefore improves the results of in vitro fertilization techniques.
