Word: conceptus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flurry of optimism about a successful treatment for some of these would-be mothers. A respected, pioneering obstetrician-gynecologist reported that in three cases a ripe egg cell had been removed from a wife and fertilized in a laboratory by sperm from her husband; then the resulting conceptus had been implanted in the wife's womb and she had given birth to a normal child. The three babies thus conceived are now from twelve to 18 months old. But optimism faded fast with the news that the doctor had failed in 30 other attempts to duplicate his successes...