With the development of the cumulus aided transfer (CAT) technique, Dr Firuza Parikh, director, department of assisted reproduction and genetics at Bombay’s Jaslok Hospital and Reserch Centre and her team has brought new hope to couples who have been unable to conceive even with in-vitro fertilization (IVF). This "path-breaking process gives a gentle twist to the assisted reproduction technique...by using wispy, cloud-like clumps of cumulus cells (which) surround the egg at ovulation, but are later discarded as waste,” notes a report in The Indian Express of January 28, 2005. As in IVF the woman’s eggs are fertilized outside the body......