At MCRM Fertility, our experience with time-lapse embryo monitoring began long before CHLOE.
Ten years later, the next revolution in this technology is here.
CHLOE™ combines artificial intelligence (AI) with time-lapse incubator technology to continuously monitor and record embryo development from fertilization through Day 6, while embryos remain safely inside their carefully controlled laboratory environment.
Rather than relying only on observations made at specific points in development, CHLOE analyzes information captured throughout embryo growth. This provides our embryologists with additional developmental insights to consider as they evaluate embryos and make important laboratory decisions.
CHLOE also gives patients a meaningful new way to connect with this part of their IVF journey. After the embryo development process is complete, patients can view a recorded video showing their embryo’s development.
Please note: CHLOE does not provide patients with live or real-time access to embryo development. The video is recorded during development and is available for patient viewing only after the development process has been completed.
First in Missouri/Oklahoma to introduce time-lapse monitoring within our embryology lab
Experience with time-lapse embryo monitoring
Embryos monitored using time-lapse technology
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Embryos remain safely inside the incubator throughout development, helping maintain a stable environment from fertilization through Day 6.
Time-lapse imaging captures the progression of embryo development over time rather than providing only isolated observations.
After the embryo development process is complete, patients can view a personalized recorded video showing their embryo’s development and gain a new perspective on this important part of the IVF journey.
Patient viewing is not live or in real time.
After ICSI (sperm injection), eggs are placed in the time-lapse incubator, where they remain during the first six days of development.
Images are captured throughout this period while the carefully controlled laboratory environment is maintained.
Mature eggs are injected with sperm (ICSI) and placed into the time-lapse incubator.
Fertilization is confirmed and early embryo development begins.
Time-lapse imaging documents cell division while embryos remain inside the incubator.
Our embryologists continue evaluating development using information captured throughout the time-lapse record.
Embryos continue progressing toward the blastocyst stage within the stable incubator environment.
The complete developmental history is reviewed to assess embryo development and help guide decisions about embryo selection and cryopreservation.
There is so much happening during the first days after fertilization that patients don’t ordinarily get to see.
CHLOE changes that—not by providing a live feed, but by creating a recorded visual history of embryo development.
Once the embryo development process has been completed, patients can view that recording and see developmental milestones that occurred inside the embryology lab.
Together with the expertise of our embryologists, CHLOE gives patients another way to understand and feel connected to an important part of their treatment experience.
For MCRM Fertility, CHLOE is the newest chapter in a story that began in 2016.
That year, MCRM became the first in Missouri and Oklahoma to introduce time-lapse embryo monitoring within our embryology lab.
Over the 10 years since, our team has developed extensive experience using time-lapse technology to observe embryo development.
Today, CHLOE adds AI-supported analysis to that foundation, giving our embryologists another source of developmental information to use alongside their training, experience and professional judgment.
Technology can provide more information.
It is the expertise of the people using that information that gives it meaning.
CHLOE Viewer and time-lapse incubator technology represent the next evolution of MCRM Fertility’s 10-year history with time-lapse embryo monitoring.
Ask your physician or care team whether CHLOE is available as part of your IVF treatment.
