{"id":640,"date":"2019-06-01T17:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T22:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/austinfertilityinstitute.com\/?p=640"},"modified":"2019-06-01T17:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T22:42:22","slug":"pgt-a-pgd-blastocyst-biopy-dr-ken-moghadam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinfertilityinstitute.com\/2019\/06\/pgt-a-pgd-blastocyst-biopy-dr-ken-moghadam\/","title":{"rendered":"PGT-A, PGD, blastocyst biopy&#8211;Dr. Ken Moghadam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our embryologists perform fascinating work every day in our #ivf laboratory at Austin Fertility Institute! For our families considering <strong>PGT-A<\/strong> (Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy) this video briefly depicts a blastocyst that is about to undergo biopsy. A blastocyst is a spherical embryo (fertilized egg) consisting of about 100-150 cells in which different layers have formed. The inner cell mass contains a cluster of cells that will form the future fetus. The outer cell layer, known as the trophoectoderm, will become the future placenta; this is where the actual biopsied cells are taken from.<\/p>\n<p>This particular couple was having their embryos screened for a single gene disorder. When the genetic parents are known to be carriers for a specific genetic disease (e.g. sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis) the process is termed <strong>PGD<\/strong> or Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis. We discuss carrier screening, genetic disease screening and more in our one-on-one consultations with Dr. M for our families undergoing IVF.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 720px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-640-1\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/austinfertilityinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blastocyst-Biopsy.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/austinfertilityinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blastocyst-Biopsy.mp4\">https:\/\/austinfertilityinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blastocyst-Biopsy.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our embryologists perform fascinating work every day in our #ivf laboratory at Austin Fertility Institute! For our families considering PGT-A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinfertilityinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinfertilityinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinfertilityinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinfertilityinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinfertilityinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/austinfertilityinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/austinfertilityinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinfertilityinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinfertilityinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinfertilityinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}