Word: petry
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doctors were trying to help her become pregnant by using a fertilization method introduced in 1978. The so-called test-tube-baby technique bypasses the sealed passages by mating the wife's egg with the husband's sperm in a glass Petri dish. The resulting embryo is implanted in the woman's womb...
...donor's egg was fertilized in a Petri dish using sperm obtained from the recipient's husband. Thirty hours later, when the egg had cleaved into two cells, it was inserted into the uterus of the menopausal woman. Her body adjusted so naturally to the pregnancy that she has even been able to breast-feed her son. One sad note amid all the celebration: the woman who donated the egg failed to become pregnant. She still does not know that in one sense, at least, she has become a mother...
...Australian experiment is expected to be followed by a birth in California this month that involves another kind of egg transfer between two women. The difference is that the California baby was conceived not in a Petri dish but in the body of the woman donating the egg. In the method used by Dr. John Buster and his team at Harbor/U.C.L.A. Medical Center in Torrance, a woman with healthy ovaries was artificially inseminated with sperm from the husband of an infertile woman. Five days after fertilization, the donor's uterus was flushed with a nutrient solution and the embryo...
...story of his discovery is legendary. Back in 1928 Alexander Fleming taught bacteriology at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, University of London. In his small, old-fashioned laboratory, he grew staphylococci in petri plates (flat glass culture dishes). One day he found that mold had spoiled one of his cultures. Staphylococci grew on only half of the plate. A blue-green mold spotted, but did not cover, the other half. He noticed that the mold had cleared a wide, bacteria-free area between itself and the staphylococci-perhaps had killed them...
DIED. Elio Petri, 53, sardonic leftist Italian film director who won an Oscar in 1971 for his Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, a complex, unsettling study of a high police official who perversely becomes a killer but is unsuspected by his system-bound colleagues; of cancer; in Rome. Although he broke with the Communist Party in 1956, Petri filmed cerebral fables intertwining politics and psychosis (The Tenth Victim, Todo Modo) that he considered propaganda for the oppressed. He acknowledged, however, that he craftily "coated the pill" with swift plots, kinky surfaces and a fidgety mosaic style...