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IRM is the only institution in Kazakhstan that uses a new revolutionary device - embryoscope - a new generation device. At its core, it is an incubator that maintains conditions for the growth and development of grown embryos. But there is a difference, and it has revolutionized modern reproductive biology. Using lenses and cameras built into the embryoscope, we can observe what changes occur in embryos from the moment of in vitro fertilization until the 5-6th day of development. The camera takes pictures once every few minutes. The photographs subsequently form a video recording in which we see how, at what time, in what sequence the growth and fragmentation of embryonic cells occurs.
Spanish clinics were among the first to use the embioscope in ART programs. Embryos were grown in it until day 5-6 and the best ones were selected for replanting. Then a large study was conducted in which exactly those embryos were analyzed that subsequently gave rise to pregnancy and subsequent births. It turned out that all these embryos had similar cleavage time intervals and other morphological criteria related in time, the so-called time-lapse timings. Thus, a new direction in embryology was born - morphokinetics. Using retrospective analysis, morphokinetics gives us answers to many questions that were previously a mystery to us.
This new technology can significantly increase the chances of pregnancy. On the one hand, there is no longer a need to remove the embryo from the incubator every day to study it under a microscope. Now the embryo is not exposed to the factors to which it is most sensitive at this stage of development: temperature changes, light, vibrations, sound.
On the other hand, we can select the best embryos, with a higher potential for implantation. In a matter of minutes, the embryo can morphologically change for the worse, and after some time return to its previous, normal state. In the video recording, we can observe that these changes can be temporary, and subsequently the previous appearance can be restored.
It is also important that future parents can see how the life of their future children was born.
The first video recordings from the work of our embryoscope: