What is "assisted reproduction"?

What is "assisted reproduction"?

Philip Werthman, FACS (Director, Center for Male Reproductive Medicine) gives expert video advice on: What therapies are available to improve male fertility?; What surgeries are performed to treat male infertility? and more...

Assisted reproduction is any technique or technology that we use short of natural conception, and it includes intrauterine insemination or sperm washing or IUI, or the turkey baster as it's commonly known. Other assisted reproductive technologies include in vitro fertilization, which means the fertilization is not done in the woman's body, it's done in the lab in a Petri dish.