A Brief Review On: In Vitro Fertilization

Abstract

In vitro fertilization (IVF) is the advanced and miraculous process by which the egg is fertilized by the sperm outside the body or a coined as the In-vitro. The advanced clinical treatment for the In-vitro fertilization (IVF) infertility when previously; other methods of assisted reproductive technology had been failed. The first successful birth of the "test tube baby" name was, Louise Brown, was born in 25 July, 1978 in London as the result of the natural cycle In-vitro fertilization (IVF). Robert G. Edwards, the physiologist who was developed the treatment, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology Medicine in 2010. This procedure involves also monitoring and stimulating of woman's ovulatory process to remove the ovum or ova from the woman's ovaries and to let the sperms fertilize those eggs in artificial fluid medium in a laboratory. The fertilized egg or zygote is cultured for 2–6 days in an artificial growth medium and then, it is transferred to the mother's uterus with the intention of the establishing a successful pregnancy as to have the obvious benefit of boosting the odds of getting the pregnant. Especially, in the stressful and unhealthy urban life style In-vitro fertilization (IVF) is very helpful for women with blocked fallopian tubes or for men with have low sperm count and it led to conceiving of babies and in turn, their births with successful as well as expecting of survival rate which are the coined with a colloquial term "test tube babies."