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Your writer detected irony in the fact that Drs. Steptoe and Edwards financed the research that culminated in the birth of the first test-tube baby by doing legal abortions. In fact, the two activities spring from the same basic belief: that parenthood should be a matter of choice...
...Associated Newspapers had bought the exclusive rights to publicize the event from the parents, and the doctors maintained complete secrecy as well. Under the direction of London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo, TIME'S correspondents nonetheless managed to turn up firm facts on the sequestered Brown family and Drs. Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards...
...years, Steptoe and Edwards have tried this basic technique on a number of infertile women, but Brown is the only one to have carried her baby so close to full term. One British newspaper reported that at least another six women are expecting lab-conceived children within two months. Drs. Steptoe and Edwards say that the Brown "pregnancy is progressing well," but until the baby is born no one can be sure that it is normal...
...award for basic medical research was shared by Drs. K. Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson, both of Stockholm's Karolinska Institute, and Pharmacologist John R. Vane of Britain's Wellcome Research Laboratories. The three men were honored for their pioneering work in identifying and isolating prostaglandins. First thought to be produced only by the prostate gland-hence the name-prostaglandins are in fact manufactured and found everywhere in the body. They are like hormones and appear to regulate a wide variety of basic life functions, from controlling the clotting of blood and secretion of gastric acid...
...argument was tilted sharply in favor of this organic explanation of the disease. At the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Anaheim, Calif., two California scientists reported that they had isolated a chemical from the blood of schizophrenics that may be at the root of their illness. Drs. Frank Ervin of U.C.L.A.'s Neuropsychiatric Institute and Roberta Palmour of the University of California at Berkeley described the substance as a variant of a peptide-a short chain of amino acids-that belongs to a family of newly discovered opiate-like brain hormones called endorphins...