The Jones Institute will always be world renowned for the birth of Elizabeth Carr in 1981, the nation’s first so-called “test tube” baby. But the Institute is credited with a host of other important advances in the field of reproductive medicine.

For instance:

•  The Jones Institute was the first to utilize gonadtrophin stimulation in a normal menstruating woman, which helped make more than one egg in a cycle available for in vitro fertilization. This technique is still in general use throughout the world.
   
• The Jones Institute developed ICSI, or intracytolasmic sperm injection, which enables doctors to pick up a single sperm and inject it into an egg.
   
• Scientists at the Jones Institute were among the first to apply pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), a medical technique that helps parents whose children-to-be are at increased risk for selection chromosomal abnormalities such as Trisomy 21/Down Syndrome and Turner Syndrome. By diagnosing and transferring embryos shown to be unaffected with the studied gene, this technology has enabled couples at a genetic risk to have healthy children.
   
• Researchers at the Jones Institute discovered that purifying the air in the labs where in vitro fertilization takes place increases the IVF success rate. Clinics around the world now mimic this practice.

The Jones Institute has superb laboratory and office accommodations with core facilities for molecular biology, cell culture and microscopy. In addition, it offers a friendly, compassionate and caring environment where infertile couples can undergo diagnosis and treatment with cutting edge, state of the art techniques, provided by an excellent team of nurses, psychological and genetic counselors and lab personnel.