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Shapiro has now dispensed with Pincus' careful surgery. He anesthetized female rabbits so they would lie still and not suffer; then he applied ice packs on their flanks directly over their Fallopian tubes. The rabbits' temperatures, normally about 103.5° F., dropped to from 92.5° to 64.4° F., but they all recovered easily from the chill.† Afterward, at various intervals, Shapiro removed the cold-fertilized ova from the rabbits, found some of them well along toward embryonic development. If he learns why & how mere cold can fertilize a mammalian egg, Shapiro may thereby explain...
...organs involved in childbirth. The pelvic cavity was an oval fruit basket. The walls of the box, as well as the pelvis, were covered with pink silk, imitating the peritoneum, glistening lining of the abdomen. Red yarn, knitted by Dr. Van Hoosen herself, showed the pattern of abdominal muscles, Fallopian tubes, ovaries. The mouth of the uterus was knitted in a purl stitch, the body in plain stitch. Inside the womb was a rubber doll, encased in a bag of Cellophane, attached to the placenta (a dark red knitted cap) by an umbilical cord of red corrugated rubber balloons...
Eleven-Day Eggs. A research crew at the Department of Embryology got hold of two human ova only eleven days old, the youngest fertilized human eggs known. Since human ova usually spend about nine days after fertilization in the Fallopian tubes and uterine cavity before attachment to the wall of the uterus, these ova had probably been attached only two days. They were extracted from unidentified women for unnamed surgical reasons, and supplied to the Institution's embryologists by Dr. Arthur Tremain Hertig of Harvard. The ova show that the early stages of embryonic development are not, as used...
After hearing the old woman's story, Dr. Israel guessed that what probably happened was this: After the ovum was fertilized, instead of traveling normally down the fallopian tube, it traveled upward, broke out into the abdominal cavity, caught and clung to the outside of the womb, received enough nourishment there to develop normally. But since it was outside the womb, the labor contractions could not expel it, and it died...
...urchin eggs in very salty water, of producing fatherless frogs by pricking frog eggs with a needle. Dr. Pincus soaked some rabbit ova in brine. Other rabbit ova he heated to 113° F., about 10° above normal. When he placed salted or heated ova in the fallopian tubes of rabbits, the rabbits became pregnant. Too impatient to wait 33 days for normal parturition, he killed the does, slit them open, found well-developed rabbit embryos inside, proclaimed the first parthogenesis of a mammal...