Word: vitro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientist who tricks Nature-for sound scientific reasons-is bushy-thatched Dr. Gregory Goodwin Pincus, formerly of Harvard, now of Clark University (Worcester, Mass.) Some years ago Dr. Pincus accomplished the first fertilization of mammalian ova in vitro-a polite way of saying that conception took place in a glass vessel. He took ova from a doe rabbit, sperm from a buck, mixed them in a culture flask, implanted the fertilized ova in another doe which, at term, produced a fine litter (TIME, March 12, 1934). Since then the scientist has been able, by skillful coddling, to keep fertilized...
...human body, in the course of an operation or soon after death, could be revived in the Lindbergh pump, and made to function again when perfused with an artificial fluid. . . . When larger apparatus are built, entire human organs, such as pancreas, suprarenal, thyroid, and other glands . . . would manufacture in vitro the substances supplied today to patients by horses or rabbits...
...treated far more energetically than within the organism, and if cured replanted in the patient. A thyroid extirpated in the course of an operation ... a kidney removed for tuberculosis, or a leg amputated for osteosarcoma, would perhaps heal under the influence of an artificial medium when living in vitro. The replantation would offer no difficulty, as surgical techniques for the suture of blood vessels and the transplantation of organs and limbs were developed long ago." In effect, Dr. Carrel, with the Lindbergh pump, is looking for the fountain of abundant, replaceable...
...rabbits, all dark grey, hopped nonchalantly about their pen in Harvard's Laboratory of General Physiology last week as many a biologist discussed their twisted pedigree. They were living evidence of what two experimenters had reported as "the first certain demonstration that mammalian eggs can be fertilized in vitro...
...vitro (in glass ) is the polite name for methods by which physiologists impolitely try to fertilize ova removed from a female with sperm removed from a male. Such experiments have long been successful with forms of life lower than mammals. But attempts at external fertilization of rabbit eggs, though sometimes yielding the characteristic first signs of impregnation, never brought to birth any young...