In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a technology involving fertilization of an egg by a sperm cell outside the body in a laboratory dish. The origin of the term in vitro, which literally means in glass, dates back to the era when glass containers such as test tubes or petri dishes were popular for cultivating tissues outside the living organism it originated from. In recent times, when plastic has replaced glass, the term in vitro refers to any biological procedure that is performed outside the living organism to distinguish it from an in vivo procedure, where the tissue remains inside the living organism in its native environment (1). Continue reading “Three’s Company: New Frontiers in In Vitro Fertilization”