News and Events
How important is overlay oil?
Oil can be the most important determining factor to your success! It is well known that oil batches vary and can be a serious cause of impaired embryo development. Selecting the best
IVF Bioscience Shelf life
All of the media within our BO-Range has an exceptionally long shelf life, most products up to 18 months. How are these shelf lives reached? IVF Bioscience’s scientific advisor Dr Lotte Stroebech established
Bull $emen: worth its weight in gold?
It is widely accepted that the success of bovine in vitro production (IVP) is hugely dependent on a variety of parameters including; media, oocyte quality, laboratory conditions and many other significant details that contribute
IVF Bioscience Training 2018
If you liked the look of our June course, you may be delighted to learn that due to a cancellation we have one space available on our August session. Our October course is also
Dolly the Sheep: 22 years on
Today marks the 22nd birthday of the world’s most famous sheep, Dolly. On the 5th July 1996, scientists at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh successfully cloned Dolly from an adult somatic cell.
First IVF Bioscience hands-on training
Our bovine IVP training courses are designed to provide a foundation in the skills and experience needed to establish a commercial IVF laboratory, as well as optimising transferable blastocyst rates in existing laboratories.
So, what does IVF do that ET can’t?
The word is out, in vitro embryo production (IVP) is on the up and multiple ovulation embryo transfer (MOET) is declining, but what’s causing this trend, and what are the benefits of making the
The ‘Elite’ Cattle of the Future
At the end of 2017 an exciting new Danish collaboration was initiated. EliteOva, a project funded by Innovation Fund Denmark, sets out to combine and optimise the in vitro embryo production (IVP) and genomic
IVF Bioscience Events Calendar 2018
The IVF Bioscience team and our network of regional distributors are exhibiting and training at a number of events around the world this year. Check out the table below for details of our upcoming
The big switch – IETS Data shows growing trend for IVP
Each year the IETS Data Retrieval Committee presents their annual report on global bovine embryo transfer (ET) statistics. They recently released the 2016 figures, and the numbers show an interesting trend away from traditional
A riverside session for IETS 2018
Another New Year and another IETS conference, this time – Thai style! January saw the IVF Bioscience team and approximately 380 attendees head to the city of Bangkok for the 44th Annual Conference of
3 Top Tips for making your practice IVF-ready
We all know the benefits of switching to IVF (more efficient and flexible embryo production, shorter generation-intervals, lower semen volumes, to name just a few) and we’re seeing increasing numbers of ET facilities adding
Merry Christmas from the IVF Bioscience team!
IVF Bioscience Christmas and New Year Holiday dates: We close at 3.30pm on the 22nd December and re-open at 8.00am on the 2nd January Wishing you a Happy and Prosperous 2018
How highly do you value your time?
For anyone working in an IVF laboratory, one of the biggest time drains is the preparation of media. Media preparation is not only time consuming, it is also complex, repetitive and – let’s
Autumn sunshine at the AETA-CETA meeting
At the end of October 2017 the IVF Bioscience team joined the 300+ members of the AETA and ACTE/CETA societies heading to Orlando for their joint annual convention. The meeting saw an action-packed
What’s the big deal about BEA testing?
Ask anyone working in an IVF laboratory, and they will tell you that working with quality, consistent materials is right at the top of their priority list. No-one wants to spend their time double-checking
