Word: sperms
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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...
...sushi restaurant near the prodigious fish market at Tsukiji in Tokyo, where nearly all the protein for 11 million people arrives fresh before dawn and is gone by 9 a.m. He will breakfast on fatty raw tuna belly, live tiger shrimp, abalone rectums and, if he is lucky, the sperm of red snapper. Such things are not grotesque but delicious; the neophyte must approach them in a spirit of hedonistic calm, interspersing them with commoner raw morsels such as lean tuna or squid...
...other theory is that the immune system of AIDS victims is simply overpowered by the assault of a variety of infections. Both drug users and active homosexuals are continually bombarded by a gallery of illnesses. Repeated exposure to the herpes virus, or to sperm entering the blood after anal intercourse, can lead to elevated levels of suppressor Tcells. The immune system eventually is so badly altered that, as one researcher puts it, "the whole thing explodes." Other experts combine the two theories, speculating that a new virus may indeed be involved, but that it only takes hold when a combination...
...noise and smoke. He gives one class his grudging approval of abortion but not birth control. "Women's contraceptive instincts become confused," he says, and spins his theory that prostitutes do not get pregnant: "When a woman has sex with five to ten different men a night, the sperm from each man is battling against the other sperm. It's the competitiveness of the sperm. They're all killing each other...