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Everyone really let loose at my toga party. It's as though all that frivolity and all that linen seem to inject a kind of truth serum into the otherwise close-mouthed athletic celebrities at Harvard. I know I really shouldn't, but I've just got to let you in on some of the deep dark secrets they told...
Unless the extracted eggs and the husband's sperm ? usually obtained by masturbation ? are kept at the right temperature and pressure, free of contamination and in an appropriate culture medium (salts, nutrients and sometimes blood serum), fertilization will not occur. Explains the University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin G. Brackett: "You don't want the eggs to suspect they are out of the body...
...placed in a dish containing blood serum and nutrients, to which sperm is added for fertilization...
...Once an egg is fertilized by one of the many spermatozoa, it is then transferred to another dish of blood serum and sustaining nutrients. For the next three to six days, the fertilized egg divides, creating a cluster of cells called a blastocyst...
...late Sir Frederick Banting began working on Banting's theory that the then fatal disease diabetes could be treated with a hormone from an animal pancreas. Holed up eight weeks in their lab, the two isolated insulin. Best later devised a method of drying and storing blood serum and pioneered development of the drugs histamine, heparin and choline...