Three Quarters of all Human Embryos Die from Chromosome Abnormalities - Bioinformatics.org

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J.W. Bizzaro • October 23, 2000

Three Quarters of all Human Embryos Die from Chromosome Abnormalities

``[Joy] Delhanty and others have found a way to examine all 23 pairs of chromosomes in test tube embryos. Out of a dozen embryos they looked at, only three had normal chromosomes. The results indicate that uniform cell development often didn't occur in the first few days after conception. `Some of these embryos with very abnormal chromosomes in fact looked perfectly healthy under the microscope,' Delhanty said.''

Full story at CNN.com:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/23/embryo.screening/index.html

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