Fertilization Quotes

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization. - Ron Reagan

While we didn't do it because we were trying to help another couple, we were trying to get pregnant and have a family ourselves. The aspect of being able to help another couple finish off their in-vitro fertilization process and have those embryos get another chance, made it super for us. - Jay White

When we use fresh sperm, the surgical procedures for the sperm retrieval and egg retrieval need to be done the same day, and this may not be convenient for the couple. However, if we use frozen sperm, the man can have his procedure first, and if we find sperm, we can bank it. Then, at the couple's convenience we do egg retrieval and the fertilization procedure that puts the egg and sperm together. The model helps us know in advance when frozen sperm would allow for good results for that couple. - Moshe Wald

What we learn in studying fertilization is not only important for this event, but also for the functioning of other cells in our bodies and for understanding many of those processes. - Andrew Singson

We expect in two or three months to do an ultrasound to check the embryos and eggs development. After fertilization we are talking a year for pups to be born and with seven gills there could be 60 or more pups. - Nick Kirby

Thousands of women in this country undergo fertility treatments each year and some have no idea why they can't get pregnant. This research gives us important new information about fertility. It's a basic science finding, but it may provide answers for some of these women and, possibly, lead to better in-vitro fertilization therapies. - Richard Freiman

This gets around all of the ethical arguments except for that small minority of the pro-life community that doesn't even support in vitro fertilization. - Roscoe Bartlett

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. - Soren Kierkegaard

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened. - George C. Williams

The cross-fertilization of ideas is right there. These breakthroughs do not come from one individual but groups of scientists. - Mauli Agrawal