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Tour of the in vitro fertilization laboratory at the Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago
In Vitro Fertilization Specialist Clinic
Gurnee & Crystal Lake, Illinois

What does the IVF lab equipment look like?

Grading IVF embryos prior to embryo transfer procedure
The embryos are in a Petri dish in the IVF lab
The embryologist is using a stereo microscope to view them at high magnification

From left to right: Isolette, incubators, hood with microscope

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What does an embryologist really look like?

We keep the eggs and embryos in the incubators. They are happier there.

The laminar flow hood and the stereo microscope where we find the eggs at the time of the IVF egg aspiration procedure

The inverted microscope where we do the ICSI and the assisted hatching procedures

Dishes in the hood containing eggs and follicular fluid from an IVF egg retrieval

The embryo freezers - used to freeze spare embryos

The embryo freezing procedure

The storage tank for the frozen surplus IVF embryos

A 3 day old embryo containing 8 cells
This is a high quality embryo for transfer back to the woman's uterus

More IVF pictures of eggs, sperms, and embryos