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Since August, The Dean has been teaching the CollegeStock Community about INVO Bioscience (OTC: IVOB.OB) and their low-cost IVF alternative, the INVO procedure. While many conventional methods of in vitro fertilization can cost more than $45,000 for 3 cycles, $IVOB‘s INVOcell device and INVO procedure is dramatically less expensive.

But what goes into $IVOB‘s INVO procedure being 50% to 60% less expensive than conventional treatments of IVF?

As The Dean has taught all of his students, $IVOB‘s INVOcell device is currently priced at $75 to $225 to distributors in developing countries and $125 to $300 in Europe and the United States. The Dean has crunched the numbers and this puts $IVOB‘s INVOcell device at an average price of $180. To achieve a successful pregnancy, most IVF procedures require 3 cycles, so let’s call the INVOcell portion of the cost at $540 ($180 x 3).

The Dean would be naive and outright blind if he ignored the costs associated with setting up the laboratories or INVO Centers necessary to perform $IVOB‘s INVO procedure. So what factors into the cost of physically being able to perform this procedure?

Straight from the English Instructions for Use of the INVOcell device, the following is required to perform the INVO procedure:

• Laminar Flow Workstation (approximately $3,000)
• Embryonic Incubator (around $1,000 but let’s say $2,000)
• Bench Centrifuge (approximately $2,000)
• Stereo Microscope (around $300)
• 1mL syringe, adjustable volume pipette, and embryonic catheter (From The Dean’s research, the total cost of these 3 items could be as little as $100 but, to give the benefit of the doubt, let’s consider the grossly exaggerated price tag of $1,000)

The Dean knows that various figures, ranging from $500,000 to more than $1,000,000, have been thrown around for the cost of setting up a laboratory for conventional IVF procedures. Again, for the benefit of the doubt, The Dean will consider the lowest suggestion of $500,000.

So, now that we have that figure straightened out, let’s compare the difference between costs in setting up an INVO Center for $IVOB‘s INVO procedure and a laboratory for conventional IVF.

To set up an INVO Center, The Dean’s math comes to a total of $8,300 but, since we’re dealing with the greatest gift of all, the gift of life, let’s call this figure $25,000 because The Dean, as he’s sure infertile couples would, wants the best.

Even if we consider the lower figure of $500,000 to set up a lab for conventional IVF, an INVO Center, or lab adequately equipped to perform $IVOB‘s INVO procedure, would still cost 20 TIMES LESS than a traditional in vitro fertilization lab.

Clearly, $IVOB can certainly be BRANDED as a “low-cost IVF alternative.”

The Dean has taught the CollegeStock Community that there are many reasons to be excited about $IVOB: The Dean’s Billion Dollar Baby and, with the OBS-GYNE Congress in February fast-approaching, The Dean believes 2010 could be a profitable year for $IVOB.