Life to be easier for IVF mums

THE heartache aspiring parents must endure during multiple IVF cycles could soon be over.

New technology could lift conception rates.

For thousands of couples, in vitro fertilisation restores to them the chance to have children, but it can be long, expensive and traumatic.

A recent study showed it cost women under 30 an average of $25,000 to have a baby using IVF. That rose to $183,000 for women over 42.

Kailing Wang, chief scientific officer of biotechnology company Life Therapeutics, said it had developed cell separation technology.

Their "sperm sorter" is able to isolate healthy sperm, significantly increasing the chances of conception.

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