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    Good news for those swimming the wrong way

    BBC News - IVF as cheap as £170, doctors claim

    The cost of IVF can be cut dramatically from thousands of pounds to around £170 to start a "new era" in IVF, fertility doctors from Belgium claim.

    Twelve children have been born through the technique, which replaces expensive medical equipment with "kitchen cupboard" ingredients.

    Data, presented at fertility conference in London, suggests the success rate is similar to conventional IVF.

    Experts said there was big potential to open up IVF to the developing world.

    Cut price
    Fertility treatment is expensive. In the UK, it costs around £5,000 per cycle.

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    The potential implications for this could be quite amazing.”

    Stuart Lavery
    Director of IVF, Hammersmith Hospital, London
    High levels of the gas carbon dioxide are needed when growing embryos in an IVF clinic in order to control the acidity levels. This is maintained using carbon dioxide incubators, medical grade gas and air purification.

    Instead, the team at the Genk Institute for Fertility Technology mixed inexpensive citric acid and bicarbonate of soda to produce carbon dioxide.
    so simple!
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

    #2
    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    BBC News - IVF as cheap as £170, doctors claim

    Experts said there was big potential to open up IVF to the developing world

    so simple!
    Do we really think that is a good idea?
    How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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      #3
      probably not, but I think IVF availability is another question. I was just impressed with the simplicity of it all.
      Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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        #4
        What was that website we had a link to a couple of years back which told you how to make a homemade sperm centrifuge from a salad spinner?

        Edit: found it.

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          #5
          Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
          What was that website we had a link to a couple of years back which told you how to make a homemade sperm centrifuge from a salad spinner?
          Not sure how that recipe for salad dressing will go down at my next BBQ.
          While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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            #6
            Originally posted by doodab View Post
            Not sure how that recipe for salad dressing will go down at my next BBQ.
            don't know one of my ex girlfriends had a real taste for it.
            Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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