Groundbreaking footage shows ‘surprisingly invasive’ process and may help to improve infertility treatments

A human embryo being implanted into a uterus has been pictured in real time and in 3D footage for the first time by a team of scientists.

It shows images of an embryo implanting into a synthetic uterus, demonstrating how the process occurs naturally.

The groundbreaking footage was released by researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in collaboration with Dexeus University hospital in Barcelona, which donated the embryos.