IVF Success Is Higher if Eggs Harvested in Summer : ScienceAlert
There's something about the seasons that seems to impact human reproduction for unknown reasons.A new study in Australia has found in vitro fertilization (IVF) is most successful when eggs are harvested in the summer.It doesn't seem to matter when the frozen embryo is actually transferred to a person's womb, only when it is originally collected.If eggs are retrieved in summer, the live birth rate is 31 percent; if eggs are collected in autumn, the live birth rate is 26 percent.Meanwhile, eggs collected in winter and…