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Should we be promoting embryo transfer at blastocyst stage?

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Deoxyribonucleic acid detection in blastocoelic fluid: a new predictor of embryo ploidy and viable pregnancy

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Extracellular vesicle-mediated delivery of molecular compounds into gametes and embryos: learning from nature

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Association between growth dynamics, morphological parameters, the chromosomal status of the blastocysts, and clinical outcomes in IVF PGS cycles with single embryo transfer

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Recent advances in preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening

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Euploidy in relation to blastocyst sex and morphology

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Increased pregnancy outcome after day 5 versus day 6 transfers of human vitrified-warmed blastocysts

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High percentages of embryos with 21, 18 or 13 trisomy are related to advanced paternal age in donor egg cycles

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Male factor infertility impacts the rate of mosaic blastocysts in cycles of preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy

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The paternal toolbox for embryo development and health

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Should we transfer poor quality embryos?

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Should we consider day-2 and day-3 embryo morphology before day-5 transfer when blastocysts reach a similar good quality?

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Elective single blastocyst transfer in advanced maternal age

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Routine use of next-generation sequencing for preimplantation genetic diagnosis of blastomeres obtained from embryos on day 3 in fresh in vitro fertilization cycles

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When the Embryo Meets the Endometrium: Identifying the Features Required for Successful Embryo Implantation

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No advantage of fresh blastocyst versus cleavage stage embryo transfer in women under the age of 39: a randomized controlled study

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Deep learning neural network analysis of human blastocyst expansion from time-lapse image files

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Blasts from the past: is morphology useful in PGT-A tested and untested frozen embryo transfers?

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Current Applications and Controversies in Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidies (PGT-A) in In Vitro Fertilization

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The adverse outcome pathway ( AOP ) for chemical binding to tubulin in oocytes leading to aneuploid offspring

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Correlation between Morphologic Grading and Euploidy Rates of Blastocysts, and Clinical Outcomes in In Vitro Fertilization Preimplantation Genetic Screening

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No Specific Gene Expression Signature in Human Granulosa and Cumulus Cells for Prediction of Oocyte Fertilisation and Embryo Implantation

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Trisomy 21 and Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A review

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The IMSI Procedure Improves Laboratory and Clinical Outcomes without Compromising the Aneuploidy Rate When Compared to the Classical ICSI Procedure

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Assessing the impact of delayed blastulation using time lapse morphokinetics and preimplantation genetic testing in an IVF patient population

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Comparison of day 5 blastocyst with day 6 blastocyst: Evidence from NGS-based PGT-A results

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Correlation study of male semen parameters and embryo aneuploidy in preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy

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Non-invasive Amino Acid Profiling of Embryo Culture Medium Using HPLC Correlates With Embryo Implantation Potential in Women Undergoing in vitro Fertilization

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Extended embryo culture is effective for patients of an advanced maternal age

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Whole transcriptome analysis to identify non-coding RNA regulators and hub genes in sperm of non-obstructive azoospermia by microarray, single-cell RNA sequencing, weighted gene co-expression network analysis, and mRNA-miRNA-lncRNA interaction analysis

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Time-lapse embryo imaging technology

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Second-generation preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy in assisted reproduction: a SWOT analysis

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Current knowledge and the future potential of extracellular vesicles in mammalian reproduction

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Does slow embryo development predict a high aneuploidy rate on trophectoderm biopsy?

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Natural selection between day 3 and day 5/6 PGD embryos in couples with reciprocal or Robertsonian translocations

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A rationale for biopsying embryos reaching the morula stage on Day 6 in women undergoing preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy

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Differences in Morphokinetic Parameters and Incidence of Multinucleations in Human Embryos of Genetically Normal, Abnormal and Euploid Embryos Leading to Clinical Pregnancy

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Transferring two grades I cleavage-stage embryo might not be a good protocol

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Analysis of meiotic segregation modes in biopsied blastocysts from preimplantation genetic testing cycles of reciprocal translocations

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Incidence of haploidy and triploidy in trophectoderm biopsies of blastocysts derived from normally and abnormally fertilized oocytes

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Genome‐wide abnormalities in embryos: Origins and clinical consequences

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Chemically induced aneuploidy in germ cells. Part II of the report of the 2017 IWGT workgroup on assessing the risk of aneugens for carcinogenesis and hereditary diseases

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The use of voting ensembles to improve the accuracy of deep neural networks as a non-invasive method to predict embryo ploidy status

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Association between women’s age and stage, morphology, and implantation of the competent blastocyst: a multicenter cohort study

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