Assisted Reproductive Technology
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is the use of reproductive technology to treat infertility. This is today the only application of reproductive technology to increase reproduction that is used routinely. Examples include in vitro fertilization and its possible expansions.
- artificial insemination
- artificial reproduction
- cloning (see human cloning for the special case of human beings)
- cryopreservation of sperm, oocytes, embryos
- embryo transfer
- fertility medication
- hormone treatment
- in vitro fertilization
- intracytoplasmic sperm injection
- preimplantation genetic diagnosis
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Famous quotes containing the words assisted, reproductive and/or technology:
“We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)