IVF on women

Abstract

‘Test-tube’ babies are not grown in test tubes as the name might imply. Louise Brown and the many hundreds of ‘test-tube’ babies around the world were conceived by IVF (in vitro fertilisation), where women’s eggs are removed from our ovaries and fertilised in a laboratory dish with men’s sperm. If a normal looking embryo results, it is inserted into the woman’s womb. The embryo insertion procedure is called embryo replacement or embryo transfer.