Doctors has introduced a new formula that significantly improves embryo implantation rates and reduce pregnancy complications in assisted reproductive technology. Existing assisted reproductive technology procedures triple the risk of pregnancy complications such as miscarriage, preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction and pre-term births, some of which are life-threatening to the mother or her baby. But, the researchers hope to correct these problems with the new treatment.

According to lead researcher professor Claire Roberts, "Assisted reproductive technologies provide some hope for the couples, but they have a relatively poor success rate with 15% to 40% of embryo transfers resulting in ongoing pregnancies, depending on maternal age.

"Fertility in women declines significantly with age, and so too does the success of ART. Since women are delaying childbearing, ART is increasingly required to make couples' desire to have children a reality. ART techniques act primarily to facilitate conception, rather than to promote embryo implantation and placentation. Therefore, they do not assist in some forms of infertility and pregnancy complications............