What is EMBRACE?
- EMBRACE is a non-invasive test for prioritizing embryo transfer that avoids invasive embryo biopsy, thereby potentially increasing accessibility for a wider patient population.
- EMBRACE scores embryos according to their probability of being healthy and viable based on chromosomal information.
- During in-vitro embryo development, embryo cell-free DNA is released into the culture medium, with higher concentrations as the number of cells increases at blastocyst stage.
- Spent blastocyst medium containing the embryo cell-free DNA can be analyzed by next generation sequencing (NGS), representing a non-invasive approach to estimate the chromosome copy number of the blastocyst without the need for trophectoderm biopsy.