For us to carry out PGS you will have to go through routine in vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedures so that we can generate several viable eggs for collection.
The eggs will have to be microinjected to fertilise them in a procedure known as Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI). ICSI is required in PGS to limit the contamination of sperm around the resulting embryos which can potentially lead to a misdiagnosis.
During PGS, only the embryos which have developed to Blastocyst stage in the laboratory (at 5-6 days of development) are screened; whereby a small number of cells is removed from the embryo during a biopsy by one of our skilled embryologists. Your biopsied embryos will then be frozen in our onsite laboratory using vitrification whilst we await the results from the specialist genetics laboratory.
Only embryos without any chromosomal abnormalities will be placed back in the womb via a procedure called Frozen Embryo Transfer.