There are many elements to consider when designing an IVF laboratory, but in essence, the design of a successful IVF laboratory will follow the simple premise that form should follow function as far as possible. In this respect, therefore, those involved in the setting up, and indeed day-to-day operation, of an IVF laboratory should also hold uppermost in their considerations the fact that an IVF
... [Show full abstract] laboratory should be set up to provide conditions which emulate the in vivo environment as far as possible. Whilst compromise is inevitable perhaps as a result of configuration, regulation or financial restrictions, the design and set-up of the most successful IVF laboratories should cause the gametes and embryos therein to be minimally compromised.
