A United Nations survey suggests losses close to $1.8T annually for embryonic moratality in beef and dairy cattle around the world, and research by one University of Guelph researcher is going a long way in trying to cut those losses.
Panveesh Madan first looked at an embryo under a microscope when he was just eight years old, but now he's working to identify healthy and unhealthy dairy embryos before they are used in an embryo transfer.
Madan says he is close to developing a test to assess which harvested embryos should be implanted for the best possible outcome, something clinicians in the human field of in-vitro fertilization are desperate for.
Madan claims that through collaboration with clinics around Ontario, eventually, evaluatating human embryos in the same manner could be just around the corner based on his research.
