From our experience in working with many clinics throughout the world, there are special conditions in warming ova that make for a steep learning curve even if one has already worked with vitrification and warming of blastocysts. Although experience with vitrified embryos can reduce the learning curve for ova, we have found that the nature…
Oocyte banking is an exciting new technology that has made the process of using donor oocytes more flexible and more accessible for both the clinic and the recipient. The World Egg Bank (TWEB) has trained hundreds of embryologists on how to use this technique and have learned the challenges often encountered. We have become experts…
Patricia M. McShane MD Medical Director The World Egg Bank A recent large series reviewing oocyte warming has given us more reason to be confident using banked donor eggs for our patients. One of the pioneers of egg banking, Ana Cobo reported an oocyte-to-baby rate of 6.5% with the warming of 3610 eggs (Cobo A…
By: Brian LoManto, M. Sc. Logistics Director/Laboratory Manager The World Egg Bank (TWEB) has become the only egg bank in the US that controls every aspect of donor egg banking with the construction of our own, new state of the art medical and laboratory facility. TWEB has had successful partnerships throughout the last 11 years…
