Word: ovum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indeed ironic for a man to show women that men can be eliminated as a reproductive factor. Of course your article [reporting how Dr. Gregory Goodwin Pincus fertilized a rabbit ovum without the help of a male rabbit and brought the offspring successfully to birth] stated: "This work will in no way affect the manner of living or customs," but just let some women get their hands on his formula and develop it further and in another hundred years or so, men will be absent from this earth...
Last week Dr. Pincus exhibited a further marvel-a fatherless rabbit, born from an ovum which had never encountered the male fertilizing element at all. This process, called parthenogenesis, occurs naturally among certain insects, has been artificially induced by man in sea urchins and frogs, but never before in a mammal. Dr. Pincus used high temperature, hormone treatments and hypertonic salt solutions* to fertilize the ovum, and his canny microsurgical technique got the egg well started toward normal development in the host mother's reproductive tract...
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...
Died. Irina & Galina, one year and 22 days old, famed baby twin girls, with one body, two heads, four arms; of pneumonia; 30 min. apart; in Moscow's Ail-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine. Most coalescent twins (the result of incomplete separation of the ovum) are born dead or die soon after birth. Because Irina and Galina lived, acted like normal babies, they were a unique boon to researchers. Although they shared a common circulatory system, they had separate hearts whose rhythms did not coincide, separate stomachs, separate nervous systems. From the fact that they often slept at different...
...quantization of biological processes can be continued far enough, it will be possible to explain in exact mathematical terms-in terms of atomic energy levels and electronspins-what happens when insulin is secreted in the pancreas, when starch is broken down in the digestive system, when an ovum is penetrated and fertilized by a spermatozoon, many & many a complex biological phenomenon...