Kevon Haigler Suzan Pigford English 2 H
17 February 2017
In Vitro Fertilization
"Infertility and In Vitro Fertilizati on." WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. 21 Feb. 2017.
This article talked about how in vitro fertilization began. Showing that this is know becoming a worldwide procedure to help with reproduction. That is commonly called the test tube babies. Since they are used to make babies outside of the womb. Then later on inserted into the womb after an embryo forms. This procedure is very complicated and also expensive that only about 5% of couples with infertility problems use this.
"In Vitro Fertilization: Facts About The Procedu re." EMedicineHealth. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2017. The following article talked about the ability to not become pregnant
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This website also tell you the steps to perform an IVF. Also tells the side effects and shows the risk of any IVF.
"In vitro fert ilization (IVF)." MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2017.
This article talks about how IVF is the joining of a woman’s egg and men’s sperm in a lab dish to create a human. This site aso tells the 5 steps to an IVF and risks. Unlike most sites this site tells you what will happen after the procedure. The woman may be told to rest for a couple days or she can return to work. The women will have to take pill for the next 8 to 10 weeks. Then 12 to 14 days the woman can take the test to see if she’s pregnant.
Ding, Karisa . "Fertility treatment: In vitro fertilization (IVF)." BabyCenter. N.p., 14 Feb. 2017. Web. 22 Feb. 2017.
This article basically talks upon how IVF helps you get pregnant if you or your partner are having problems. When everything is how it is supposed to be the doctor will give you a trigger shot. Launching the embryo up the woman’s uterus. It takes 4 to 6 weeks to complete one cycle of IVF. The younger the woman the higher the percent for this procedure to work. One pro of this IVF it shows no links to cancer. One con is that this is a costly procedure. The average procedure cost 12,400
In Vitro Fertilisation which is most commonly known as IVF, is a complex series of procedures used to treat fertility or genetic problems and assist with the conception of a child (Staff, Mayo Clinic, n.d.). IVF is the most effective form of assisted reproductive technology (ART). Having a healthy baby using IVF depends on many factors some of these include the cause of infertility and age, for someone the same age as Lucy, which is 32 they have a 44% chance of falling pregnant from a single embryo (Monash IVF Group , 2017). IVF can also be time consuming, extremely expensive and invasive. There is a lot of criticism towards IVF for its ethical, political and social aspects.
Making big choices in life can be difficult, especially if that big choice is having children. There are many men and women who are infertile that still want to have children. Most decide to adopt other children who do not have families or their families do not want them. But when adoption is not an option, there is now a way where those men and women can have their own children together through fertility treatments. Fertility treatments could be a good thing:being able to freeze egg and sperm, they can help infertile couples, and avoiding transmitted diseases would be easier.
In vitro fertilization and human embryonic stem cell research are two of the most popular and controversial topics that are being discussed today. Lee Silver, from the film defines in vitro fertilization as:
In Vitro fertilization
An article, discussing the pros and cons of IVF-induced pregnancies, and compares it with the process of natural conception.
Infertility is the fundamental lacking of the ability to conceive a baby, and both men and women can have this problem. Dr. Clark, our guest speaker in class pointed out that approximately 30% of men and women are infertile, while 25% of infertility cannot be explain by science yet. Because of that, infertility is no longer considered as a lifestyle problem but a disease instead. According to Dr. Clark, one of the options for the infertility patients today is the use of stem cell therapies to treat infertility, and one of the recent popular stem cell therapies is reproductive cloning. Reproduction cloning is a process to “produce” a next generation of “you” through somatic cell nuclear transfer. In my paper, I will argue that
On June 25th 1978 Louis Brown, the first “test tube baby” was born. She weighed 5 pounds, 12 ounces .Her parents, Lesley and John Brown, had been trying to conceive for nine years. They faced complications of blocked Fallopian tubes and were willing to try the experimental and risky procedure. (“PBS”) the process of in vitro includes harvesting eggs and sperm, fertilizing the egg and then placing the freshly fertilized egg into the mother. Today, despite the high cost, in vitro fertilization has become the most popular option for women having trouble conceiving. In 2013, IVF resulted in over 50,000 births. (cdc.gov)
Technology is advancing all the time, but often we question the necessity of the new inventions. In the 1980s, in vitro fertilisation was still a very new science. The information was limited to the people who actually could and would participate in the studies, as simulating human pregnancy in animals is difficult. The actual procedure, however, includes a donated egg, sperm, and simulating mitosis in a test tube then injecting it into a woman 's womb.
In Vitro Fertilisation is a major breakthrough in embryo research and has increased the possibility of large numbers of women becoming pregnant. It is a procedure used to overcome a range of fertility issues caused by damaged or blocked fallopian tubes. This procedure is conducted by a medical physician in a specialized laboratory by removing eggs from the ovaries of a female and mixing it with sperm from the male, fertilize them in a laboratory, and then replace the embryos back into the female’s uterus where they implant and maturation begins. (IVF Australia 2016) The fertilized egg (embryo) is allowed to grow in a protected environment for some days before being
The process of IVF involves mixing the woman’s egg and the man’s sperm outside of the woman’s body, usually in a petri dish. Invitro fertilisation literally means ‘fertilisation in glassware’. If the fertilisation is successful, the formed embryo is transferred to
IVF has many benefits for couples who have tried to conceive a child of their own and have little or no success. IVF takes nature into the laboratory and gives a helping hand with the fertilization of the egg. Many times this is attempted because of the egg not being able to fall into the fallopian tube
From this the embryos are cultured for up to 5 days and if viable, one or more are placed in the uterus for the remaining reproductive cycle to occur (Sherbahn, 2015). Furthermore, current assisted reproductive techniques such as intrauterine insemination have decreased the time required for the procedure and increased the chances of pregnancy (IVF Australia, 2015). These procedures however, are only applicable for cases which involve physical or environmental problems such as low sperm counts or poor motility of sperm in males or endometriosis in females (Todd, 2015) and therefore can not help people that have genetic issues with their gametes which is a more difficult issue to overcome.
I would like to explain some of the topics that I choose which is the in vitro process start with in vitro maturation that means the significant numbers of immature oocytes can be collected from ovaries and mature them in the laboratory without recourse to ovarian stimulation. Besides that, the selected oocytes are then incubated for a period of 24 hours, this is called the maturation period. This involves artificial removal of cumulus-oocytes complexes (COCs) from antral follicles and culturing them in essentially standard cell culture condition until they reach maturity or metaphase II stage. From my view, this method reduces the time, risks associated with conventional IVF, and costs.
“In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a reproductive technology in which an egg is removed from a woman, joined with a sperm cell from a man in a test tube (in vitro). The cells fuse to form single cell called a zygote, which then starts dividing, becoming an embryo. When the zygote/embryo is only a few cells large, it is implanted in the woman’s uterus, and, if successful, will develop as a normal embryo.”