Eggs like music

LONDON: It is known as the food of love – and now it has emerged that music may boost the odds of IVF success.

Playing music to an egg in an in vitro fertilisation lab increased the chances of it being fertilised by 5 percent, a study has found.

The Spanish researchers believe the tiny vibrations may ease the passage of nutrients into the egg, while speeding the removal of toxic waste and so raise the odds of fertilisation.

Scientists from the Marques Institute fertility clinic in Barcelona injected sperm into almost 1 000 eggs and put them in incubators. Fertilisation rates were higher in the incubators in which music had been played. – Daily Mail