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In vitro fertilization is the most effective form of assisted reproductive technology that helps women become pregnant, in which mature eggs retrieved from a woman are fertilized by sperm in our laboratory. IVF is a type of fertility technique that helps women become pregnant when other less expensive techniques have failed. IVF has been successfully…

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is a fertilization procedure in which a sperm is injected directly into an egg to achieve fertilization. ICSI is done for male infertility. This procedure is selected if the sperm are felt to be too weak to penetrate the egg themselves or if the number of sperm are too low. Using…

Blastocyst culture is the incubation of the embryo until five days after the egg retrieval. By day 5, the embryo has divided into two cell types: inner cell mass (ICM) which becomes the baby, and the trophectoderm cells which will become the placenta. Only a small percentage of embryos will ultimately reach the blastocyst stage…

Assisted zona hatching (AZH) is a procedure of assisted reproductive technology in which a small hole is made in the zona pellucida (retrieved egg from IVF), using micromanipulation, thereby facilitating zona hatching to occur. This can be done both mechanically or using a laser. It is thought to not only assist with the hatching process…