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Word: serre (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1956-1956
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...method is based on the fact, demonstrated by Canadian scientists (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953), that a substance called sex chromatin can be detected in female but not in male cells. Dr. David Serr and Geneticists Leo Sachs and Mathilde Danon of Jerusalem's Rothschild-Hadassah University Hospital reasoned that cells in the amniotic fluid, the liquid inside the sac that encloses the fetus, could be analyzed to reveal the child's sex. To get small samples of the fluid, they inserted an extremely fine hypodermic needle through the vagina and into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Boy or Girl? | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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