Start-up launches workstation to help fertility clinics upgrade ‘outdated’ systems

The US fertility technology company TMRW Life Sciences (TMRW) has announced the launch of a workstation aimed at facilitating the digital management of fertility clinics’ frozen specimen inventory.

The introduction of the CryoLink workstation aims to enable the use of TMRW’s Digital Specimen Management system with or without TMRW’s automated storage platforms.

Until now, fertility clinics could only access TMRW’s Digital Specimen Management system by adopting its storage platforms.

While TMRW’s CryoRobot Select, the only FDA-cleared fertility storage system on the market, provides safe storage environments for frozen eggs and embryos, many fertility clinics are interested in an intermediate step that will allow them to quickly improve critical steps in their storage processes without having to make the more significant investments in time, resources and facilities that adopting the entire TMRW automated system sometimes requires.

“The launch of CryoLink lowers the barriers for fertility clinics to improve legacy storage systems that are under severe strain from an explosion in storage needs,” said Louis Villalba, CEO at TMRW.

“More than a million frozen eggs and embryos are put into storage every year in the United States, a number that could grow 10-fold in the coming years. Clinics need a digital solution now to safely manage their inventories and scale successfully.”

CryoLink, Villalba said, now enables TMRW’s Digital Specimen Management system to be used with a wide range of storage options thereby enabling easier, faster adoption by clinics. The workstation can be used with the company’s automated storage platforms, its offsite storage facilities and/or traditional storage tanks currently used by fertility clinics.

He said TMRW’s Digital Specimen Management system offers fertility clinics an immediate and easily adoptable way to upgrade their onsite labs from outdated, manual systems that pre-date computers, the internet and the cloud to a modern, digital system.

“It also enables a truly unique offsite storage experience that provides instant inventory and paperless processing,” Villalba added. 

Lori Batta, chief operating officer at TMRW, said: “Every fertility clinic in America should be taking a hard look at their storage safety protocols and upgrading to state-of-the-art technology that helps reduce the risk of egg/embryo damage, mix-up and loss.”