What are the Risks of Egg, Embryo, and Sperm Freezing with Vitrification? Compared to the slow freezing method, vitrification is a more reliable freezing method giving much higher survival rates. However, it's important to note that not every frozen egg or frozen embryo will survive the warming process. Also, not all thawed eggs will fertilize nor will every thawed embryo…

Embryo Vitrification Fertilized eggs are called embryos, in embryo vitrification the eggs and sperm are retrieved from respective individuals and fertilized in the laboratory before vitrification. On fertilization, it may be observed that the resultant embryos are high in quality and quantity and the parents-to-be may choose to freeze the same for future cycles of IVF. Prior to their freezing,…

Slow Freezing Slow freezing of embryos had been the gold standard of embryo freezing for almost three decades prior to the advent of the vitrification procedure. However, one of the major drawbacks of this was the formation of intracellular ice crystals, these proved to be rather dangerous to the cells as the sharp crystals could kill cells by shredding the…

Vitrification is a technology that is used in the embryo and egg freezing process so that they can be stored for later use. It is a technology that has many uses outside of fertility care with egg and embryo freezing.