AI Helps Select IVF embryos, Raises Ethical Questions

Artificial intelligence tools can now help choose the most promising embryos for in vitro fertilisation (IVF), although experts have warned of some ethical concerns. procedures like IVF allow millions of children to be born each year to parents who have difficulty conceiving. Though, the success rate of IVF, wich involves creating an embryo by fertilising an egg wiht sperm in a lab, can vary and decreases with age.

Almost 50 years after the first IVF child was born,”artificial intelligence is here to help us select better embryos or at least help determine their potential for implantation,” says Nathalie Massin,head of the clinical unit at an IVF center at the american Hospital of paris,in an interview with AFP.

The Paris facility performs over 2,300 IVF procedures annually. It uses an embryoscope, a time-lapse camera that continuously films embryo progress.

Previously,the data recorded by the camera – such as embryo shape,symmetry,and cell division – wasn’t used much.

But AI tools,like machine learning,can now help doctors select embryos with the best chance of successful implantation or freezing for later use.

This could reduce the number of expensive IVF attempts for parents by identifying embryos most likely to have abnormalities that cause miscarriages.

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