Word: ovum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better; she's starting to scream at me"), Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, only a few weeks pregnant, was rushed 106 miles from Long Island to a Manhattan hospital. There, while Husband Arthur Miller waited, doctors performed an hour-long operation to end a tubal pregnancy (in which the tiny ovum grows in the Fallopian tube instead of in the uterus). Said Miller afterward: Marilyn felt "as well as could be expected," still planned to have children...
...possibility of "fertility control" arises from the fact that the drug, when taken on certain schedules, apparently prevents ovulation. Since no ovum is then released, there is technically no destruction of life. Studies of the hormone's action on this phase of the cycle are far from complete. Even when the drug is released by the FDA, it will be strictly a prescription item; its effects are so tricky and complicated-there may be dangers still unsuspected-that women will be sharply discouraged from trying to doctor themselves with...
...Major Simons admits, of course, that cosmic rays kill tissue cells, but he does not think any part of an animal's body is seriously damaged by the loss of a few cells. Genetic damage is another matter. If a cosmic ray hits a reproductive cell (sperm or ovum), it can cause the birth of an imperfect individual. Major Simons cannot guarantee at present that all his high-flying mice and monkeys will have normal descendants...
...science was spurred by a report that Eugenist Helen Spurway gave at University College in London. Among humans, she declared, virgin birth could not happen in the case of a hermaphrodite, who would not be self-fertile. However, parthenogenesis* might occur. This is the process by which an ovum begins to divide spontaneously, without having been fertilized by a sperm-perhaps after it has made up for the missing male chromosomes by a form of doubling. It is almost certain that the offspring of parthenogenesis would be a female, since the ovum contains only female chromosomes...
...plea, in the A.M.A. Journal, for doctors to report extremely rare cases of leukemia in identical twins to medical groups involved in leukemia research. Purpose of the request: to learn more about hereditary factors in the disease by studying its effect on two humans coming from the same ovum...