The embryology laboratory

When an egg and a sperm arrive in the embryology laboratory, a new chapter of treatment begins. From that moment the care of cells that may become an embryo — and in time a new life — rests with the embryology team.

An embryology laboratory is not simply a room where a few techniques are performed. It is a fully controlled environment in which science, experience and precision sit side by side so that every stage of treatment is carried out with the greatest possible delicacy.

At Taban Fertility Center every egg, every sperm and every embryo is handled with the care and responsibility it deserves, because we believe the quality of a treatment begins here.

What happens in the embryology laboratory?

A large part of fertility treatment takes place in this laboratory, including:

In vitro fertilisation (IVF)

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)

Monitoring and assessing embryo development

Choosing the right moment for embryo transfer

Freezing and thawing eggs and embryos

Embryo biopsy for genetic testing (PGT)

Preparing the embryo for transfer to the uterus

Each of these stages calls for precision, concentration and sound judgement, and no stage means anything on its own: the quality of treatment is the product of all of them working together.

What makes this laboratory valuable

Advanced equipment matters, but on its own it does not determine the quality of treatment. What makes the difference is the skill of the people who work every day with cells in which the smallest change of conditions can affect the rest of the journey.

At Taban the embryology team manages each stage with care, patience and adherence to scientific standards — from choosing the right method of fertilisation to assessing embryo development, performing biopsy, freezing and preparing for transfer. Our aim is to do each step correctly, at the right time, and with as little unnecessary handling as possible.

Precision is the first principle of our work

Work in an embryology laboratory is a series of precise decisions — many of them taken at a scale the eye cannot see.

That is why we believe the quality of a laboratory is not measured by its equipment alone, but by the precision, experience, accountability and attention to detail that happen every day behind its doors.

Close contact with the clinical team

The embryology laboratory does not work in isolation. Physicians, embryologists and the rest of the clinical team stay in contact throughout, so that decisions follow the real circumstances of each couple and the course of their treatment.

That coordination is what keeps the timing of a transfer, a biopsy, a freeze or any other laboratory step aligned with each patient's treatment plan.

Services of the Taban embryology laboratory

In vitro fertilisation (IVF)

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)

Embryo culture and development monitoring

Embryo transfer

Egg freezing

Embryo freezing

Embryo biopsy and genetic testing (PGT)

Assisted hatching

Use of surgically retrieved sperm (TESE) in assisted reproduction

Our philosophy in the embryology laboratory

We believe every embryo is valuable and deserves the most careful handling.

For that reason the Taban embryology laboratory works to carry out every stage — from the first moment of fertilisation to the day of transfer — with planning, precision and respect for a process that matters.

The quality of a treatment is not visible only in its outcome. It is formed in the way each stage is carried out, each decision is made, and each detail is attended to — details a patient never sees, but which matter to what comes next.