Groundbreaking footage shows ‘surprisingly invasive’ process and may help to improve infertility treatments
A human embryo being implanted into a uterus has been pictured in real time and in 3D footage for the first time by a team of scientists.
It shows images of an embryo implanting into a synthetic uterus, demonstrating how the process occurs naturally.
The groundbreaking footage was released by researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in collaboration with Dexeus University hospital in Barcelona, which donated the embryos.
Samuel Ojosnegros, the principal investigator of the IBEC’s bioengineering for reproductive health group and lead author of the study, said the work was significant because it revealed how the implementation process happened in detail.
