A breakthrough biopsy technique lets scientists screen all chromosomes in a days-old embryo created in the lab, dramatically reducing the odds of recurrent pregnancy losses.
SEATTLE, July 19, 2010 — A Seattle-area mother and her four-month-old daughter represent a tiny number of births nationwide – perhaps among the first three in the entire county – using an emerging embryo-biopsy technology that could be the next major advancement in solving a medical problem plaguing millions of American women for decades: multiple miscarriages.
The new mother, Sheila Gruber, 34, of Duval, had suffered two consecutive miscarriages prior to undergoing a highly sophisticated form of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and chromosomal analysis that allows geneticists to examine unprecedented amounts of DNA – about one-fourth of the entire human genome, or 40 times more than possible with other technology – in eliminating severely flawed chromosomes that would cause subsequent miscarriages.
Professor John Herr, director of the Center of Contraceptive and Reproductive Health at the University of Virginia, examining 
Dr. Janet Kennedy, MD of NCRS was just listed as one of Seattle Magazine's "Top Doctors." This annual peer-recommended roster of physicians is the among the highest acknowledgements for any physician.
