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New research helps predict which human embryos are most likely to succeed
When assisting conception with in vitro fertilisation, embryologists need to achieve a delicate balance: transfer too many healthy embryos, and a woman faces the potential danger of twins or triplets; transfer too few, and a woman risks having to repeat the process or not having a child at all. Human fertilisation, as it turns out, is an uncertain process both inside and outside of fertility clinics. This video from KQED San Francisco’s science documentary series Deep Look shows how researchers are getting closer to making in vitro fertilisation a more precise science.
Producer: Gabriela Quirós
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Astronomy
The remarkable innovations inspired by our need to know the night sky
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Knowledge
Why it takes more than a lifetime to truly understand a single meadow
11 minutes
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Physics
Groundbreaking visualisations show how the world of the nucleus gives rise to our own
10 minutes
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Earth science and climate
There’s a ‘climate bomb’ ticking beneath the Arctic ice. How can we prepare?
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Physics
To change the way you see the Moon, view it from the Sun’s perspective
5 minutes
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Ecology and environmental sciences
GPS tracking reveals stunning insights into the patterns of migratory birds
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Space exploration
The rarely told story of the fruit flies, primates and canines that preceded us in space
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Neuroscience
This intricate map of a fruit fly brain could signal a revolution in neuroscience
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Computing and artificial intelligence
The ‘cloud’ requires heaps of energy to stay aloft. Could synthetic DNA be the answer?
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