Embryologist Pamela Yengo works in IVF labs helping couples create embryos. She explains two ways sperm reaches an egg: natural migration or ICSI, a procedure where a single sperm is injected directly into an egg under a microscope when standard fertilization won't work.
Pamela Yengo is an embryologist extraordinaire and showed us how to dabble with the miracle of life.
I probably have the awesomest job in the world. I get to help grow families in the IVF lab.
You see happy, happy people at the end. Yes, yeah. ORCAT's version of this process has 3 basic steps.
So in there is basically where all the magic happens. Okay. So that's where we get the egg and we get the sperm and we combine it to make embryos.
The sperm can make its way over on its own or get some help.
The other way is through something called ICSI.
What does ICSI stand for?
ICSI stands for intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Okay. I'm gonna take them to a specialized scope so that I can place the sperm inside of the egg, being really careful not to disrupt anything. And that's it. So, ICSI is a tool that we use when couples need kind of more assistance to get to their goal. But if possible, we try to use conventional.
You're really good at this. This is crazy. You're like a egg sommelier or something.
