AN EXPERIMENTAL sperm-sorting technique designed to increase the odds of having a child of the desired sex has a fairly good success rate and does not appear to increase the risk of complications or birth defects, a fertility clinic says.
The Genetics & IVF Institute in Fairfax, Virginia, revealed the interim results of its ongoing clinical trial at a conference in Las Vegas earlier this month. The main findings? “For girls this is very effective,” says Keith Blauer of the institute. “For boys it’s improving.”
The technique, called Microsort, relies on the fact that the X-chromosome is larger than the Y.…
