Article from Clinical Lab Products December 7 2015
According to the company, most embryologists utilize “point-in-time” monitoring of pH combined with visual evidence of embryo development. These measurements can be susceptible to shifts in temperature and other lab environment factors like humidity and elevation, among other conditions that can corrupt the monitoring results and compromise the embryo.
“Because TrakStation measures pH levels directly inside the incubator, there is no opportunity for contamination of the culture or environmental sampling errors introduced during the measurement process,” says Russ Aldrich, chief executive officer of Blood Cell Storage.