Word: gilberte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...textile mill town of Oldham in the northwest region of England. There, in a guarded room of the maternity section of Oldham and District General Hospital, Lesley Brown, 30, a resident of Bristol, was being tended in her final month of pregnancy. For nine years she and her husband Gilbert John, 38, a van driver for British Rail, had futilely tried to have a child. Now, finally, the Browns were on the verge of achieving their hearts' desire?in a most spectacular manner. Early in August, she is due to give birth by natural means to a child that...
...want is to be a normal famly. Having our own baby is our dearest wish." That sentiment has surely been voiced by many an expectant parent, and Gilbert John Brown, 38, a British truck driver, is no exception. His wife Lesley, 30, is scheduled to give birth shortly. All that seems commonplace. But the birth of the Browns' baby may well be the most sensational obstetrical event since the birth of the Dionne quintuplets in 1934. Reason: the child will be the world's first baby conceived in a test tube...
...Insulin is a model system" for developing other applications of recombinant DNA research. Gilbert said...
...addition to these benefits. Gilbert said information and techniques gained from the insulin research may pave the way for commercial production of other proteins...
Commercial production of insulin in large quantities might hold down the price of insulin as the number of diabetics increases, and would greatly benefit diabeties who are allergic to the insulin that is now isolated from slaughtered cows and pigs. Gilbert added...