Through a carefully planned process, eggs are retrieved and combined with sperm for fertilisation. The fertilised embryos are cultured further to become a blastocyst before transferring back to the uterus for implantation (fresh embryo...
Intrauterine insemination (IUI) and in vitro fertilisation (IVF) are two commonly used assisted reproductive techniques. IUI involves placing sperm directly into the uterus, aiming to increase the likelihood of fertilisation. IVF, on the other...
IVF (In-Vitro Fertilisation) is an assisted reproductive technology with fertilization occurring outside the body. IVF requires the incorporation of eggs and sperm in the laboratory through a technique called Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI). (more…)
Infertility is not uncommon in present society. Very often, people would think that the issue with infertility lies mainly in women. However, men can also be the cause of infertility between couples. Azoospermia is a...
What is Infertility? Infertility is defined as not being able to achieve a pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse between a man and a woman. Around 15% of couples in...
What is Laser Assisted Hatching? A human embryo has a soft outer ‘shell’ called the zona pellucida (or zona for short). When an embryo is five or six days old and is at the stage...
For women pursuing in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), you will most likely be given fertility medications for ovarian stimulation. These medications come in the form of injections and are usually self- administered. It can be a...
Step 1: Ovarian Stimulation Ovarian stimulation facilitates the retrieval of multiple oocytes during oocyte pick up (OPU) procedure in an IVF cycle. In order to retrieve multiple oocytes, the ovaries are stimulated through daily administration...
Elective egg freezing is an option for women to preserve fertility and conceive later in life. This means that eggs with better reproductive potential (harvested at a younger age) are available when one becomes...
In order to achieve a pregnancy, the egg has to be fertilised by the sperm. Fertilisation is the fusion of an egg and a sperm to form an embryo. Fertilisation can occur in-vivo (inside...
