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Invitro fertilization (IVF) is the technology of separating and removing immature oocytes (ovarian eggs) from a female, placing them in a Petri dish of specific media, and introducing sperm cells. The goal is to achieve fertilization of the oocytes followed by the incubation of the newly fertilized embryo to a stage where it is viable enough to transfer into the uterus of a surrogate female.

 

 

 

 

Using IVF, Trans Ova Genetics offers extensive opportunities for breeders to obtain more offspring from donors, pregnant donors and virgin heifers. Though IVF technology has often been thought of as a “last resort” for unfertile cows, the best results are achieved with healthy, fertile donor cows. IVF also may work well on cows that produce many “unfertiles” with conventional ET.

Trans Ova Genetics can sex-sort thawed semen for this process, allowing breeders to use semen from the sire of their choice to fertilize their donors’ IVF eggs.  This technology has significantly improved both the reproductive results of elite donor female lines and the ability to achieve the desired pedigree variety and offspring production of bulls and cows alike. This process, when coupled with gender-sorted semen, greatly increases – up to 90 percent - the chances for a calf of desired gender. The use of this technology also allows breeders options to extend the use of rare semen across multiple IVF donors.

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