CAREmaps

We were the first UK clinic to introduce time-lapse embryo imaging. 

CAREmaps, the name of our time-lapse imaging procedure, has been designed to help us choose the best embryo without genetic testing. It allows us to predict which embryos have the most potential, which can increase your chances of successful IVF treatment. 

Could CAREmaps be right for me?

CAREmaps time-lapse embryo imaging is an additional procedure available to all our patients. It’s used to make our routine embryo selection process even more effective.  Over 2,000 babies have been born using CAREmaps so far.

CAREmaps uses time lapse imaging together with algorithms developed by CARE scientists to help us predict which embryos have the most potential.

What does CAREmaps involve?

CAREmaps time-lapse embryo imaging is unique to CARE and is offered at all our clinics. We’ll carry out the procedure during your IVF treatment once we’ve fertilised your eggs.

The process includes three important elements.

  • Time lapse embryo imaging, where we take photographs of your embryos, without disturbing them, every few minutes. This gives our embryologists much more information than can be gained by standard methods.
  • Specific morphokinetic algorithms, which are calculations about what the embryo should be doing at specific points in time.
  • Closed incubation. With standard incubation we have to remove the embryos from the incubator to observe them. However, with time-lapse imaging the embryos stay in the incubator, without the need to be removed, providing us with continuous monitoring of your embryos.

Our scientists are world-leaders in time-lapse technology, and our CAREmaps technique is really highly developed; we’ve innovated models that can help us choose the best embryo more reliably, allowing us to see whether each has a low, medium, or high chance of success.

You can find out more about CAREmaps by talking to your local clinic or contacting us. 

What is CAREmaps?

Professor Simon Fishel and Alison Campbell explain time lapse imaging as it applies to the clinical practice of IVF.  MAPS stands for Morphokinetic Algorithms to Predict Success, we use computer algorithms that allow us to predict a moment in time when the embryo is undergoing its cell division and allows us to understand what it should be doing at that moment in time.