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Bourn Hall Clinic

Since this birth in 1992 "intracytoplasmic sperm injection" or ICSI has been adopted by IVF clinics around the world.

Dipp

Michelle Dipp, a co-founder and CEO of OvaScience, a company focused on improving the success of IVF

Ek Doctor Ki Maut

This movie is loosely based on the life of Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay, an Indian Physician who pioneered the IVF treatment just around the same time when another leading scientist Dr. Robert Edwards was conducting separate experiments in England.

Embryo culture

A review in 2013 of studies on individual culture media came to the result that the G3 medium confers a significantly higher live birth rate and a lower risk of low birthweight than the Sydney IVF medium.

Evans v United Kingdom

Hadley from Baswich, Staffordshire, underwent IVF treatment but later got divorced from her husband Wayne, and wanted to use two of her stored embryos to try to get pregnant.

Gadens

Acted for ANZ and Commonwealth Bank of Australia on the funding of the leveraged acquisitions of Monash IVF and subsequent restriction of those facilities.

Gerry Kandelaars

In regards to same-sex IVF, he says "parenting is not about gender but about your commitment and devotion to your children and about the love you have for them and about what is in your heart".

History of in vitro fertilisation

In 1977, Steptoe and Edwards successfully carried out a pioneering conception which resulted in the birth of the world's first baby to be conceived by IVF, Louise Brown on 25 July 1978, in Oldham General Hospital, Greater Manchester, UK.

Oocyte cryopreservation

This injection technique is called ICSI (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) and is also used in IVF.

Ovulation induction

Recombinant HCG (rHCG), recombinant luteinizing hormone (rLH) and urine-derived hCG (uHCG) are equally effective in achieving final follicular maturation in IVF with regards to pregnancy rates and risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome.

Peter Thurnham

He was noted for his very strong support for the Abortion Act 1967 and for embryo research, and was a founder member of the Progress campaign group which promotes IVF.

Religious response to assisted reproductive technology

Pope Benedict XVI has publicly re-emphasized the Catholic Church's opposition to in vitro fertilization (IVF), claiming it replaces love between a husband and wife.


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