Word: petrie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...illnesses that they don't want to pass on to the next generation, they can opt for a remarkable procedure called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). It starts with standard in-vitro fertilization, in which sperm from the father are mixed with eggs collected from the mother in a Petri dish. Then comes the genetic magic...
...University of Wisconsin in Madison, the other at Johns Hopkins, announced last week that they had both pulled it off. The Hopkins team, according to a report in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, got stem cells to survive in a petri dish for as long as nine months...
...trial judge ruled for Maureen, holding that once the sperm and ovum are united--whether "in the private darkness of a Fallopian tube or the public glare of a Petri dish"--a human life has begun and it is the woman's decision whether or not to let it proceed. But the intermediate appellate court took Steven's side, rejecting the notion that the embryos are human life and emphasizing the consent form that both Kasses had signed...
Monica, actually, is not technically a Brentwood girl. She grew up just to the east, with both feet in the petri dish. Monica, whose parents' divorce papers listed a psychiatric-therapy bill of $1,800 a month, is a 90210 girl...
...Thus far, doctors believe that all H5N1 patients contracted the virus from direct contact with poultry. However, the major fear that has scientists anxiously poring over petri dishes is that the virus might have mutated into form that can be transmitted from human to human, creating a pandemic that could kill millions of people. Results of U.S. Centers for Disease Control tests on H5N1 samples are expected later this week...