Artificial intelligence tools can now help choose the most promising embryos for in vitro fertilisation (IVF), although experts have warned of some ethical concerns.

Procedures such as IVF allow millions of children to be born across the world each year to parents who have otherwise struggled to conceive.

However the success rate of the procedure, which involves creating an embryo by fertilising an egg with sperm in the lab, can vary widely and declines with age.

Now, almost 50 years after the first IVF child was born, "artificial intelligence is here to help us select better embryos or at least help determine their potential for implantation", Nathalie Massin, the head of the clinical unit of an IVF centre at the American Hospital of Paris, told AFP.

The facility in the French capital

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