Word: petrucci
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...without the involvement of a sperm), probably induced by incidental stimulation of the ovum. Scientists were similarly skeptical of claims by Shettles in the 1950s that he had brought an externally fertilized human egg into the sixth day of cell division, and by an Italian scientist, Daniele Petrucci, who a few years later announced that he had kept alive an embryo in a test tube for 29 days. The embryo was destroyed, Petrucci said, because it was growing "monstrous." He dropped the work entirely after it was condemned by the Vatican...
Even test-tube babies, once the stuff of science fiction, are now not only possible, but probable. Dr. Landrum Shettles of Columbia University and Dr. Daniele Petrucci of Bologna, Italy, have shown that considerable growth is possible in test tubes. Shettles has kept fertilized ova growing for six days, the point at which they would normally attach themselves to the lining of the uterus. Petrucci kept a fertilized egg alive and growing for nearly two months...