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...clinic opened at the Norfolk General Hospital in Virginia, some 3,000 women have applied for admission. So far, only 35 have been selected for the treatment (cost: $3,500 to $4,000), in which an egg is removed from a patient's ovary and fertilized in a Petri dish with her husband's sperm, then inserted into the uterus...
...Sewalls as they turn over in their graves. It will not be an act of inhospitality, mind you (even in death they are too well-bred for that), simply one of incredulity that in the land of the Bean and the Cod, he who is called Summus Pontifex, Vicarius Petri, Servus Servorum Dei, Dominus Deus, Nostra Papa, and addressed as Sanctissime Pater should be here. Their amazement is only matched...
...humanly happier, if ethically problematic, event occurred in England. The first baby ever conceived outside the human body was born 8% months after doctors there united sperm and egg in a laboratory petri dish and then implanted the embryo in the mother's womb...
...stop treating their new baby daughter as a medical oddity. Like every child ever conceived and born, the so-called test-tube baby [July 31] spent about nine months in utero and entered the world in a manner acceptable to society and medicine. Louise Brown was conceived in a Petri dish, not a test tube, and she developed and was born from within her natural mother's womb. To herald this girl as a test-tube baby only perpetuates the myth that we are entering a Huxleian world of callous indifference to childbirth and motherhood...
...Arizona team began applying anticancer drugs to cells taken from tumors and then culturing the cells in order to, in their words, "determine whether there are correlations between what is observed in the petri dish and in the patient." Tumor cells taken from nine people with myeloma, a bone marrow malignancy, and nine with ovarian cancer were exposed to varying concentrations of several anticancer drugs, then cultured in petri dishes. The researchers compared the effects of the drugs on the cultured cells with the patients' responses to the same drugs. In all but one case, the effects matched...