Frozen Ovaries And Future Options For Fertility: Can Abnormal Genes Be Modified?

A frozen ovaries procedure used to be relatively unsuccessful. But now, 80 to 90 percent of the eggs are reported to survive and women have about 97 percent chance of having a child if 40 or more eggs will be frozen prior to turning 35. One option is to freeze an ovarian tissue at a young age to be thawed and put back in the body after several years.

Aside from frozen ovaries, scientists have also produced stem from stem cells, proving that  there is no reason why it may not be done the same for eggs. Which means that in 40 years, the women are more likely to have several feasible alternatives for the preservation of fertility. The scientists hope that this breakthrough will be affordable and become socially acceptable, empowering women to have children when already prepared, according to Business Insider

However, in spite of the vast number of researches, only a third of women can have a baby after IVF today, which is projected not to change in the next 40 years. This is due to age and the fact that the healthiest embryo has a 30 percent chance of having an abnormal genetic feature that may cause defects or miscarriage.

The genetic screening prior to implantation is used to determine the embryos, however, the future, enhanced noninvasive testing of the fluid, which the embryo has grown intentionally, will greatly increase IVF rates.  Hence, IVF is expected to be the normal process to conceive years from now.

Genetic abnormalities can be removed in 40 years. Based on reports, the current technology has already the capability not to search for the most common chromosomal issues such as Down's Syndrome, but rather at every gene and the areas between these genes. By 2056, science is projected to have the capability to correct abnormal genes in either the foetus or embryo by the use of gene editing methods like the CRISPR. Certainly, the ethical and social debate is expected to be as complicated as the science, Tech Insider reported.