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Then, in 1991, Renee received a phone call from Gary Hodgen, president of the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine at the Eastern Virginia Medical School. The Institute had developed a procedure that could enable her and David to have a healthy child, and Hodgen wanted them to try it. The procedure, called preimplantation genetic diagnosis, is a marriage of in vitro fertilization and high-tech genetic testing. PGD begins with a standard in vitro fertilization, but then, when the embryos have divided to between four and eight cells, technicians remove one or two cells and test them for the harmful...
...grant money, which fuels 85% of bio-medical research in the U.S., has been denied to scientists in this field. So controversial is the issue that four successive Secretaries of Health and Human Services (formerly Health, Education and Welfare) have refused to deal with it. This summer, Norfolk's Hodgen resigned as chief of pregnancy research at the National Institutes of Health. He explained his frustration at a congressional hearing: "No mentor of young physicians and scientists beginning their academic careers in reproductive medicine can deny the central importance of IVF-embryo transfer research." In Hodgen's view the curb...
...idea is not new. In 1871 Dr. J. T. Hodgen of St. Louis sprinkled scrapings from the soles of patients' feet upon healthy open wounds. He found that the small bits of sole grew rapidly, quickly covered the wound with new skin. In 1899 Dr. J. L. Wiggins of East St. Louis reported success with Dr. Hodgen's method. In 1909 Dr. Lyman W. Childs of Cleveland published a modification of Dr. Hodgen's method in the Southern Medical Society's Journal. Dr. Childs removed small cubes of the outer layers of skin, partially dried them...
...Robins, L. J. Henes, L. King, R. H. Cary, L. V. Howe; Cornell. J. C. Talcott, G. J. Requardt, D. K. Senior, E. T. Cook, S. G. Hoffman, R. Q. Keasbey; Princeton: M. Dwight, R. r. Bumsted, H. G. Turner; Michigan; R. C. Craig, D. H. Torrey, J. T. Hodgen, P. H. smith, R. S. Hammond, H. S. Gamble, J. J. Horner; Pennsylvania: J. L. Hartranft, E. Hess, J. H. Scott, Jr.; Amherst: D. c. McMartin, M. V. Edds, E. Gray, C. H. Hubbard, F. E. Williams; Johns Hopkins: E. W. Bridgman; Williams; G. Horrax; Bowdoin: S. Edwards L. McFarland...
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