Cryobiology - 21st Century Medicine, Antifreeze Protein, Artificial Insemination, Bokanovsky's Process, Brian Wowk, Carnobacterium P (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: 21st Century Medicine, Antifreeze protein, Artificial insemination, Bokanovsky's process, Brian Wowk, Carnobacterium pleistocenium, Cloning, Cryoprotectant, Cryostasis (clathrate hydrates), Cryosurgery, Embryo transfer, Ex-situ conservation, Freezing, Frozen Ark, Frozen zoo, Glass transition, Greg Fahy, Hardening (botany), Hypothermia, Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine, In vitro fertilisation, Kenneth B. Storey, Neuropreservation, Neurovitrification, Oocyte selection, Partial cloning, Society for Cryobiology, Sperm bank, Therapeutic hypothermia, Viaspan, Xylomannan. Excerpt: In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process by which an egg is fertilised by sperm outside the body: in vitro. IVF is a major treatment for infertility when other methods of assisted reproductive technology have failed. The process involves monitoring a woman's ovulatory process, removing ovum or ova (egg or eggs) from the woman's ovaries and letting sperm fertilise them in a fluid medium in a laboratory. When a woman's natural cycle is monitored to collect a naturally selected ovum (egg) for fertilisation, it is known as natural cycle IVF. The fertilised egg (zygote) is then transferred to the patient's uterus with the intention of establishing a successful pregnancy. The first successful birth of a "test tube baby," Louise Brown, occurred in 1978. Louise Brown was born as a result of natural cycle IVF. Robert G. Edwards, the physiologist who developed the treatment, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2010. The term in vitro, from the Latin meaning in glass, is used, because early biological experiments involving cultivation of tissues outside the living organism from which they came, were carried out in glass containers such as beakers, test tubes, or petri dishes. Today, the term in vitro is used to...