City Fertility Centre Melbourne

City Fertility Centre Melbourne

On Friday I visited the lab of IVF clinic City Fertility Centre, along with renowned fertility specialist Dr Bruce Shapiro and his assistant Shiva Price from Las Vegas Fertility Center, ahead of the Surrogacy Australia conference, which was held over the weekend. A big thank you to the manager, Helena Jericho for setting up the visit.





City Fertility Centre in Melbourne is on leafy St Kilda Road.

Incubators are essential for the operation of an IVF lab.

As is liquid nitrogen…

Pouring liquid nitrogen is an art form, given its dangerous nature…

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