Time-lapse: how an embryo develops over five days in the laboratory
Time-lapse imaging of a cohort of embryos growing in culture from roughly 18 to 112 hours, filmed in a South African academic IVF laboratory.
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Fertility education videos published by trusted South Africa organisations, with Antega context for each topic.
Time-lapse imaging of a cohort of embryos growing in culture from roughly 18 to 112 hours, filmed in a South African academic IVF laboratory.
Filmmaker Molatelo Mainetje-Bossman speaks about the social and cultural side of infertility in African communities, including silence, stigma and family expectations.
Dr Razina Patel walks through elective (social) egg freezing step by step, from ovarian stimulation and monitoring to egg collection, vitrification and storage.
Time-lapse imaging of a cohort of embryos growing in culture from roughly 18 to 112 hours, filmed in a South African academic IVF laboratory.
Filmmaker Molatelo Mainetje-Bossman speaks about the social and cultural side of infertility in African communities, including silence, stigma and family expectations.
Dr Razina Patel walks through elective (social) egg freezing step by step, from ovarian stimulation and monitoring to egg collection, vitrification and storage.
Genetic counsellor Kelly Loggenberg explains what preimplantation genetic testing is, the different types and who might be offered it.
Dr Mohamed Cassim goes through the points in an IVF cycle where things can fall short — egg and sperm quality, fertilisation, embryo development, the lining of the womb and implantation.
Dr Nicholas Clark reviews the extra treatments often offered alongside IVF and asks which of them a patient actually needs.
Dr Jack Biko explains who may need donor eggs or donor sperm and how a donor cycle is run.
Professor Zozo Nene, reproductive medicine specialist at Steve Biko Academic Hospital and the University of Pretoria, explains how endometriosis and PCOS each affect fertility.
Dr Victor Hulme explains low and premature ovarian reserve — what the tests measure, what they do not tell you, and what the options are.
Dr Tasneem Mohamed, obstetrician and gynaecologist at BioART Fertility Centre, sets out how infertility is investigated and what the first round of tests looks for.
A short laboratory demonstration of specialist sperm processing, as used for therapeutic sperm preparation and viral decontamination.
Dr Jack Biko, President of SASREG, gives a plain introduction to what IVF involves from the first stimulation injection to the pregnancy test.
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