Fertility Cares Blog

An embryo transfer is the last part of the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process. At Fertility Centers of New England, all embryos are grown for 5 days to the Blastocyst…

A previous blog on this site described the use of assisted hatching on frozen embryos.  As described, laser assisted hatching is a technique used to mechanically thin or vaporize a…

A human egg or oocyte is surrounded by an outer protective shell known as the zona pellucida. As an embryo develops from zygote (day 1) to blastocyst (day 5), the…