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Although IVF has been available for over 40 years, there was any breakthrough technology aimed at improving its success rate considerably, until EggLogics’ potentially game-changing proprietary technologies developed to ‘recharge’ eggs from women, particularly those over 35 years.
It’s a matter of racing against the clock for women above 35 years of age who undergo IVF to have their first live births, because of the progressively declining quality of their eggs. The success rate for women around 40 is 10 percent, meaning they have to undergo 10 rounds of IVF to have a successful live birth. The extracted ‘unusable’ eggs are discarded. Not only is the treatment costly, it is also emotionally distressing for the couples seeking help.
“My goal is to improve the success rate of IVF by creating more ‘usable’ eggs,” says Dr Lee Tin-lap, Founder and Chairman of EggLogics. “Promoting egg’s health is a logical solution. Hence our name, EggLogics.” Dr Lee is a professor at the School of Biomedical Sciences, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
A winner of the 2022 Start-up Express programme, organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), EggLogics has developed “EggCellence” which combines cutting-edge research in clinical science, regenerative biomedicine, genomics, biomedical engineering and bioinformatics. Three proprietary technologies, that are non-invasive and entirely ethical, have been in preliminary clinical trials. “EggBoost” is an egg-enrichment technology to improve the quality and quantity of ‘usable’ eggs and promote egg maturation. A key component is a chip made of hydrogel. This chip replenishes mitochondria that restores the cellular functions in the eggs for their healthier development and better reproductive outcomes. This technique is also applicable for egg freezing.
The other breakthrough is the gene-based “EggCheck”, an egg quality assessment technology to identify IVF usable eggs. This…
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