Word: in-vitro
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Dates: during 1978-1978
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...many scientists, there were even more sweeping ramifications. They noted that in-vitro fertilization techniques may give researchers an important new laboratory tool for devising ways of coping with genetic diseases, testing new methods of contraception and, perhaps most important of all, studying close up one of nature's most awesome and still baffling processes: the first stirrings of life. Said one leading specialist on reproductive physiology, Dr. Carl Pauerstein of the University of Texas, of the British work: "It has the potential for adding greatly to the knowledge of the reproductive biology of our species...