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A keynote lecture by Rene Frydman, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hôpitaux de Paris.

In the last forty years, the knowledge of human reproduction has benefited an enormous development. The human extracorporeal fertilization leads to discover the beginning of life who was invisible and untouchable until the first in vitro fertilization (1978). The ovulation process, the fecundability of oocytes, and the quality of the ovarian reserve beside the uterus capacity are now better to understand. The sperm characteristic and the process of embryo implantation remain unclear. The genetic assessment of the embryo capacity, the freezing of oocytes and embryo are the new tool of a prolonged period of fertility.

The ability for the human embryo to develop to a healthy baby is in large part the consequence of the environment (Tabaco, Alcool, Nutrition, Stress). We know for an infertile couple the necessity to be considered as a specific situation with a global approach more scientific in one hand and more human in the other. Ethic consideration must also be discussed in front of such new possibilities as gender selection, modification of the genome, uterus transplantation, editing futures characteristics (transhumanism). The question is no longer how to do but why to do such modification. A personalized approach in medicine is mandatory and especially in infertility assessment.

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