Word: petrucci
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article "The Glass Womb" [which described the fertilization of a human egg on glass slides] made me wince at the way some men can tamper with the laws of nature and morality as they please, and appear justified in doing so. I think there is a point that Dr. Petrucci has failed to realize: if Dr. Petrucci is actually growing human life, he will be committing murder each time he kills one of the specimens...
...bearded Surgeon Petrucci, 38, and his coworkers, Drs. Laura de Pauli and Raffaele Bernabeo, artificial insemination started as a sideline. They began growing test-tube human embryos three years ago, in a tiny lab behind Petrucci's Bologna office, to get newborn cells for experiments in antibody response to transplanted tissue. "We had no intention of creating a 'man in the box,' " says Dr. Petrucci. "Far from it. The problem today is to limit births, not increase them." The doctors collected live ova from Petrucci's female patients during hysterectomy or after sudden death. Since...
...fertilization occurs, the embryo is kept alive with regular feedings of oxygenated amniotic fluid, drawn from a pregnant woman. With "cold light" and highly sensitive film, color and black and white movies are made of the process of insemination and embryo development. Thus has Italy's Dr. Daniele Petrucci successfully fertilized a human ovum outside the womb "more than 40 times...
...insemination outside the human body is not new; Harvard's Dr. John Rock first achieved it in 1944. What is remarkable is that Dr. Petrucci kept one fertilized egg alive for 29 days, and had to kill it because it was growing "monstrous." U.S. scientists have managed a test-tube life span of six days...
Could the embryos have developed further-into human beings? "It is technically possible," answered Dr. Petrucci. '"We have overcome three obstacles that were held to be insurmountable: temperature, gas exchange and metabolism." Petrucci's suggestion stunned the Roman Catholic Church. Its plain reply: the experiments should be stopped. At week's end, bowing to pressure, Catholic Petrucci announced that he was leaving for a vacation in Switzerland...