Genetics and IVF Institute

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Genetika & amp; IVF Institute

Genetics & amp; IVF Institute (GIVF) is an international provider of infertility and genetic services and products, and is also involved in biomedical research in this field. The institute was founded in 1984 by Dr. Joseph D. Schulman and his colleagues. GIVF's headquarters are located in Fairfax, VA, USA, and facilities include locations in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, California, and Texas in the United States, as well as in China, Mexico, and several other countries.

Genetics & amp; IVF Institute has been responsible for key innovations to help couples have healthy babies and to improve women's reproductive health. These include:

U.S. Medical Center the first to introduce eggless retrieval from surgery without surgery (transvaginal oocyte)) for IVF; achieve the birth of the first frozen embryo twins in America; the first American team to report a public pregnancy using ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection); first offering clinical laboratory testing for specific mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that cause hereditary breast cancer; developing an important technique of non-surgical sperm aspiration to improve male infertility treatment; first in the world to initiate cryopreservation of the ovaries for oocyte storage for women with cancer; find method (non-express genetic preimplantation test) for effective prevention of Huntington's disease; developed MicroSort, an important cytometric-sperm human sperm separation technique for preconceptional sex selection, which has resulted in more than 1,000 births.

Research services and activities in Genetics & amp; IVF has been the subject of many articles in major newspapers, such as the New York Times, and on various television and radio shows.

In 1998, the Institute opened a branch facility in Shanghai, China, becoming the first modern infertility treatment and medical genetics center in the country.

The activities of the American Institute involve a large donor egg program, one of the major groups of sperm banks and egg banks in the world, one of America's most active centers of genetic preimplantation testing, and cryopreservation of oocytes through vitrification in addition to more conventional, infertility and genetic IVF. services.

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References

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External links

• Official site
• Fairfax Cryobank
• Fairfax EggBank

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