Word: embryos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...works by adhering to certain hormone receptors in the uterus that under normal circumstances accept progesterone, the substance that prepares the uterine lining to receive a fertilized egg. Because the presence of RU 486 blocks the action of progesterone, the uterine lining sloughs off, and the embryo is expelled, as an unfertilized egg is during a normal period. Although bleeding is usually heavier than during menstruation, only a pregnancy test prior to receiving the drug will tell a woman for certain whether she has actually conceived...
...women who sustained their pregnancies after receiving the drug had clinical abortions. Dr. Couzinet hopes to improve the success rate of RU 486 even further by mixing it with small amounts of prostaglandins, biological compounds that cause the uterus to contract and help expel the embryo. That combination, the French researchers say, should provide a 100% effective form of after-the-fact birth control. "There are between 40 million and 50 million abortions performed annually around the world," Couzinet says. "If we have found a safe, convenient medical method of terminating pregnancy, I think it will turn...
...like slime mold under a microscope. They execute their robberies, and their victims, with soulless professionalism; their gangster grimaces register starkness without sexiness. Brad Jr. and his pals are hardly more exemplary. Talking tough, swigging beer, waiting for something bad to happen, they could be the Whitewood Gang in embryo...
...children conceived outside the womb have been born since 1978. But this particular little girl was born to a woman who is not her mother. Last summer a woman who could not carry a child had an egg fertilized by her husband's sperm in a laboratory. The embryo was then transferred to the womb of another woman...
...lovely '80s twist on meeting cute. Blane's snooty friend Steff (James Spader) could be a tired stereotype, but with his all-year tan, his hip-blase voice and his view of high school as a "career," Steff becomes a recognizable character of any age: upscale slime in embryo...