Full in vitro fertilization laboratory mechanization: Toward robotic assisted reproduction?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1277-1286

  Meseguer, Marcos ^a   Kruhne, Ulrich ^b   Laursen, Steen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c IVF SYD   (Denmark)

Author keywords

automatization; embryo; monitoring; oocyte; Sperm

Indexed keywords

CELL ISOLATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL VIABILITY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CUMULUS CELL; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PHOTOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SCORING SYSTEM; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VITRIFICATION;

AUTOMATION, LABORATORY; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; MICROFLUIDICS; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; ROBOTICS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84861647376     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.03.013     Document Type: Review

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