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Hi, this is Your Health Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series. We bring you the latest vital health news, discoveries that affect your body and your mind.

And we break down the medical research to help you stay healthy.

I'm Tanya Lewis.

I'm Josh Fishman.

We're Scientific American's senior health editors.

Today's episode covers a topic that many parents to be have struggled with,

fertility. In vitro fertilization offers a path to pregnancy for people who are fortunate enough

to be able to access it. But predicting the success of an implanted embryo is hard. Now,

researchers are developing a test that could make it easier.

For many people, deciding to have a child, getting pregnant, and giving birth is straightforward, if not easy.

But for others, it can be a real struggle, sometimes involving years of treatment and no guarantee

of success.

In vitro fertilization, or IVF, is the process of stimulating eggs to develop, fertilizing

those eggs outside of the body in a lab dish, and then implanting them in the womb.

There, an embryo hopefully develops into a healthy baby. Right, but for many couples,

it's not that simple. Ive-F can require multiple rounds of grueling egg stimulation cycles,

during which the female partner must undergo daily injections of hormones that make the ovaries

...