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...Indeed, some past studies have shown the benefit of multiple-embryo transfer. "When you're just reporting pregnancy rate per transfer, some studies have shown better results in transferring two versus one," says Dr. Lynn Marie Westphal, a fertility specialist and director of women's health at Stanford University School of Medicine...
...embryos. At Stanford's fertility clinic, where doctors can carefully select high-quality embryos by growing them in the lab for five days, until the blastocyst stage, instead of the more usual three days, success rates have been on par, if not higher among single transfers, says Westphal. "When I look at our data, in patients with really good blastocysts, the pregnancy rates were comparable," Westphal says. "The singles were just as good if not better in most of the groups." (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...some patients, however, the chances are slim, despite the best technology. "Some of our patients are in their mid-40s and don't have good embryos," says Westphal. "We know that the implantation rate is so low that even if you transplanted many embryos [for them], they're unlikely to get pregnant...
...even as doctors increasingly consider elective single-embryo transfer the best practice for many IVF candidates, and as more and more fertility clinics report comparable success rates between single- and multiple-embryo transfers, there is still no rule for all women. Even among the best candidates for IVF, says Westphal, there may be much variation. "People don't realize that there's a range," she says. "One 36-year-old is not the same as another 36-year-old, or someone who has done many, many cycles and has terrible embryo quality is not the same as someone...
...another reason, apart from the impulse to explore new avenues, why Hirst has decided to throttle back production of the spin and butterfly paintings. The Sotheby's sale is also a canny way of getting his name out to new buyers. "There's our global reach," says Cheyenne Westphal, Sotheby's European chairman of contemporary art. "We're everywhere, and we act as a magnet for all the new people coming into the market." And a lot of those people might be more comfortable in an auction house - where anyone with cash can flex their muscles - than in top galleries...