Word: eggs
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...pictures that would make clear how R.B.A. stands out from other fertility practices has never been posted. In October, a patient here gave birth to twin boys conceived from eggs--another woman's--that had been frozen for more than two years. Unlike Bobbi McCaughey, this woman could not be helped by fertility drugs. She had suffered ovarian failure and could produce no eggs, no matter how much medication she took. Her best option would have been to accept a fresh egg from a donor. But she had agreed to this experimental procedure instead, on the condition that her privacy...
...egg freezing can be perfected, for example, a woman who faces the loss of her egg-bearing ovaries through radiation therapy or disease could preserve her eggs for later insemination. Or, given that aging eggs rather than aging bodies are the leading cause of female infertility, a young woman who wants a career before she starts her family--or even before she chooses a mate--could freeze her eggs in their prime, then use them later...
...Egg freezing is just one of the fertility breakthroughs that are moving through the pipeline from lab to clinic. Doctors are removing and cold-storing ovarian and testicular tissue for later reimplantation, coaxing test-tube embryos to grow stronger before they are put into the womb, even performing microscopic surgery to transfer chromosomes from old, worn-out eggs into young, robust ones. All these techniques have a single purpose: to beat the odds nature has stacked against a woman's ability to bear children...
...many existing assisted-reproduction therapies were developed overseas. The world's first in-vitro baby, Louise Brown, was born in England. The first baby born from a frozen embryo is Australian. And it was in a Belgian lab that researchers found a way to inject sperm directly into an egg cell, enabling men with insufficient, slow-moving or feeble sperm to become fathers--a powerful new technique known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection, or ICSI...
That this profane creation could have been mistaken for a calcified Superman with a biblical pedigree evokes patronizing chuckles today. But Jacobs, an undersung writer (Beautiful Soup, The Egg of the Glak and Other Stories), treats bunkum and hypocrisy as endearingly ambivalent national traits. Unsurprisingly, his all-time champion of this view is P.T. Barnum, who at one point tells General Tom Thumb that "our mission is to startle and amuse, to make our audience pay too much for too little and forget to hang us from the nearest lamppost...