MicroSort® Clinical Trial Reaches Birth Limit

Effort Now Focused on FDA Approval

The MicroSort® Division of GIVF has now reached an important milestone in our effort to have MicroSort® approved by the FDA and made more widely available. The maximum number of MicroSort procedures that are allowed under the protocol has been reached, and we have requested that the FDA grant us permission to provide continued access to the MicroSort® technology. If permission to proceed is granted by the FDA, this step would not represent FDA approval, but would allow us to operate under the same rules as the clinical trial.

We will provide more information on this web page as we work through the necessary procedures and as we receive feedback from the FDA with regards to our request for continued access. If you wish to be notified of any changes in the status of MicroSort® procedures, we invite you to sign up for MicroSort® eNews by clicking here. Any news and/or updates about MicroSort will be sent via email to those signed up for MicroSort® eNews.

MicroSort^® News Articles

Newsweek Cover Story: January 26, 2004

"Brave New Babies" - Parents now have the power to choose the sex of their children. Click here for news article

CBS Early Show, November 7, 2002

Choosing Your Baby's Gender Click here to view the transcript of the nationwide broadcast

MicroSort Press Release; October 15, 2002

MicroSort opens California laboratory for preconception gender selection in partnership with Huntington Reproductive Center.

International Council on Infertility Information Dissemination, Inc. (INCIID)  Web based information resource on parenting issues.  June 2002 on-line newsletter:  GIVF's MicroSort: Technology separates the boys from the girls by Keith Blauer, MD and David Karabinus, PhD, HCLD. 

PARENTING:  Going for the Girl (May 2001) 

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: Getting a Girl (July 1999) free registration required for viewing

TIME MAGAZINE:  Boy? Girl? Up to You: The long-sought ability to choose a baby's gender may finally be a reality (Sept 1998)

Other Articles:
NEW YORK TIMES:  Way to select baby's sex reported (Sept 1998)
DISCOVER: The top science stories in 1998; Birth Order (Jan 1999)
USA WEEKEND: Special delivery, Science is perfecting a way to select the sex of your next child (May 1999)
FORTUNE:  So you want a Girl? (Feb 2001)
VOGUE:  The power of choice (Mar 2001)