Infertility could be caused by a variety of reasons. To discover if you or your partner is infertile, visit our NYC fertility clinic for basic fertility testing. If you and your partner are having trouble conceiving,

What’s involved with intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)? This technique, perfected at the Free University of Belgium in the mid-1990s, revolutionized the treatment of male-factor infertility due to inadequate or deficient sperm cells. It involves microinjecting one sperm cell into each egg cell, resulting in a fertilization rate of 90-100% of all eggs inseminated in this way.

Up until then, eggs retrieved at IVF were fertilized by placing each egg in a culture dish containing 50,000-100,000 sperm cells per milliliter of culture fluid, and checking the next day if the egg had fertilized.