Assisted
Reproductive Technologies have been studied by ARBL faculty for decades.
Most of this work is done with cattle and horses, but sheep and smaller
laboratory species also are used for some projects. Technologies used
routinely or being studied include artificial insemination, transvaginal
oocyte recovery, oocyte maturation, in vitro fertilization and culture
of embryos, flow cytometry including sexing sperm, a number of micromanipulation
procedures to oocytes and embryos such as cloning and sperm injection
(ICSI), embryo transfer, and cryopreservation of sperm, oocytes, and
embryos. Not only have ARBL faculty pioneered some of these procedures,
they have an international reputation for making them more user-friendly
while maintaining and even improving efficiency. 
Faculty
also use these tools for basic research, including regulation of gene
expression in oocytes and embryos, and have trained literally thousands
of people to apply these technologies. More than a dozen former ARBL
graduate and postdoctoral students head human IVF clinics and many
others work in the horse and cattle breeding industries. For information
on current and recent projects, please see the pages for individual
faculty below.
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