Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must be primed for fertilization or, in the technical term, capacitated. This means that the chemical inhibitors preventing the sperm from penetrating the egg must be removed from the surface of the sperm. How this trick is accomplished in the body remains a puzzle; some scientists think that the woman's secretions do the job. But in the lab, experimenters usually are able to prime the sperm simply by gently bathing them in a salt solution. There is also the critical matter of timing: neither eggs nor sperm have unlimited lifetimes, nor does the uterus remain receptive for long...
...woman is treated with hormones to stimulate maturation of eggs in the ovary...
...After the woman receives further hormone treatment to prepare the uterine lining, the blastocyst is placed in the uterus, where it attaches to the wall and normal embryo development proceeds-as it would from a natural conception...
...said to have offered $190 to an Oldham reporter for the parents' names, and journalists began pouring into town from around the world. At least one posed as a friend of a patient to gain admittance to the hospital. Three Japanese photographers began shooting pictures of every pregnant woman in sight. Said a hospital spokesman: "It seems if you move anything, there is a reporter behind...
FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon -Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, Gabriel Garcia Márquez -Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer -The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi -The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke -The World According to Garp, John Irving