the continued debate regarding the stage at which the human embryo conceived in the laboratory should be placed in the mother, combined with recent developments in culture media formulations, have brought the role of the human blastocyst in art back into the spotlight. art and the human blastocyst presents the proceedings of the international symposium on art and the human blastocyst held from march 30- april 2, 2000 in dana point, california. this book brings to the forefront the main issues raised with the transfer of embryos at the blastocyst stage, including the reduction of high order multiple gestations and the role of the blastocyst culture and transfer in facilitating successful single embryo transfer. sections include gamete quality and pregnancy outcome, physiology of the embryo, blastocyst development in culture, blastocyst transfer and fate, and implantation. more than 40 illustrations and 25 tables complement the text.