Sentences with phrase «sperm in a petri dish»

Their technique, which involves taking a woman's mature oocyte (egg) and fertilizing it with sperm in a petri dish to form an embryo, led to a U.K. woman's giving birth to the first «test tube baby» in 1978.

IVF is the process by which an egg is fertilized by sperm in a Petri dish that, if successful, results in (an) embryo (s) 3 - 5 days later.

A quarter century ago, British physicians Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe faced condemnation when they added an egg to sperm in a petri dish and created an embryo that became Louise Brown.

Now i'm trying to help him to find a clinic to do an inexpensive study of the effect of 2 hours exposure of wifi over sperm in petri dish at the same temperature.

Not exact matches

Sperm may be strong swimmers in their, um, «natural habitat,» but they become notoriously sluggish when you ask them to do their thing in a petri dish.

Because the sperm cells used in IVF often need all the help they can get, switching to the diamond petri dishes could give them just the boost they need to fulfill their destiny — thus potentially ramping up the notoriously low success rate of IVF.