What is "Intracytoplasmic sperm injection"?

What is "Intracytoplasmic sperm injection"?

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Intracytoplasmic sperm injection or ICSI as it is known, is a technique of advanced reproductive technology, and it's a technique of in vitro fertilization. The sperm are taken into the lab, the eggs are retrieved from a woman's ovaries after she goes to a series of fertility treatments, and under a microscope a single sperm is picked up in a very, very tiny needle and is then directly injected directly into the cytoplasm inside of the egg, allowing it to fertilize.