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Word: bernabeo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bearded Surgeon Petrucci, 38, and his coworkers, Drs. Laura de Pauli and Raffaele Bernabeo, artificial insemination started as a sideline. They began growing test-tube human embryos three years ago, in a tiny lab behind Petrucci's Bologna office, to get newborn cells for experiments in antibody response to transplanted tissue. "We had no intention of creating a 'man in the box,' " says Dr. Petrucci. "Far from it. The problem today is to limit births, not increase them." The doctors collected live ova from Petrucci's female patients during hysterectomy or after sudden death. Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Glass Womb | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

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