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...years ago Harvard's Physiologist Gregory Goodwin Pincus placed a rabbit's ova in a bottle with a rabbit's sperm, shook them together for 20 minutes. Next he placed the fertilized ova in the fallopian tube of a rabbit doe who 33 days later bore a litter of six healthy bunnies. They were no kin to her. She was simply their host-mother (TIME, March...
Last year Dr. Pincus fertilized rabbit ova with rabbit sperm in the same way, tried to make the ova develop in glass containers. That ectogenic experiment failed...
Thereupon Dr. Pincus proceeded to perform other genetic tricks which, when he reported them to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in Washington last week, stirred the Press to front-page speculation as to the imminence of immaculate conceptions and substitute motherhood in humans...
...they moved a little nearer-Vienna, then Paris. There Sons Moishel and Abraham became Marcel and Armand de Belvedere. Son David-Yusel married a rich and masterful girl, departed for points east. Son Julius went to England. Arrived in the U. S. at last, Mayer and faithful Son Pincus sought and found friends in Jewry. Not so Marcel and Armand, who turned Episcopalian, went from prep school to post-graduate society and married rich goys (who later turned out to be almost as purely Jewish as their husbands). Julius turned up with an English wife and a new name: Justin...
...life from an ovum without fertilizing it with a sperm. In the recent experiments the ova and sperms have united outside of the female, and then have been placed inside another female. "We hope to examine the growth of the egg outside of the mother's body," said Dr. Pincus, "since nobody knows exactly what the processes of reproduction are and what happens when the sperm and ovum unite...