embryo

The practice is currently used at a smaller scale in day-to-day medicine, where living cells such as blood cells, sperm and embryos are frozen at ultra-low temperatures to be stored.

In clinical terms, IVF involves removing eggs from a woman, fertilizing them in a lab with sperm and implanting embryos in the uterus.

They are working toward creating a child born from an embryo edited to prevent a hereditary disease.

The technique also successfully repaired mutations linked to scoliosis in zebrafish embryos.

Then they began the delicate process of transferring an embryo to the woman that would hopefully carry and deliver their baby.