Jul 30, 2020
"So the stakes are very high when you store cryopreserved embryos, eggs, sperm, testicular tissue, ovarian tissue, but even higher stakes when you cryopreserve and store tissue from cancer patients."
--Sangita Jindal, Ph.D.
In 2018, there were a number of notable failures of cryostorage which caused concern for patients...
Jul 23, 2020
"One of the biggest challenges that PGT (preimplantation genetic testing) has presented to the field of IVF is this phenomenon of mosaic results - these results that neither clearly normal nor clearly abnormal but somewhere in between." - Emily Mounts, MS, CGC
Mosaicism is very challenging topic and there are many...
Jul 16, 2020
The role of genetic counseling in reproductive medicine is complicated. There are misunderstandings about how genetic counseling works. In this episode, Jill Fischer, the Director of the Genetic Counseling program at Kean University discusses misconceptions about genetic counseling.
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Jul 9, 2020
On this episode, we speak with Susan Crockin about surrogacy contracts.
Susan Crockin, JD runs the Crockin Law & Policy Group and is also a Senior Scholar and Adjunct Professor at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.
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Jul 2, 2020
In this episode of ASRM Today, we are speaking with genetic counselor Aishwarya Arjunan about the updated American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) guidelines concerning cystic fibrosis screening. Ms. Arjunan is currently the Clinical Product Specialist for Carrier Screening at Myriad Women's Health in...