ANSC 3122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cloning, Testicular Cancer, Ovulation
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Applications: test tube fertilization ivf (in vitro fertilization, the first (cid:858)test tu(cid:271)e(cid:859) (cid:271)a(cid:271)(cid:455) Louise joy brown born in england on july 25, 1978. Successfully had ivf (about 80) but embryos from these procedures lasted only a few weeks. Failed to develop properly: fertility is on the decline (in the us at least) Ivf: the browns had been trying to conceive for 9 years. It was determined that a blocked fallopian tube was the defect. After laparos(cid:272)opi(cid:272) retrie(cid:448)al of her eggs (cid:373)i(cid:454)ed (cid:449)ith hus(cid:271)a(cid:374)d(cid:859)s sper(cid:373) a(cid:374)d fertilization occurred. This time, they decided to place embryo into uterus after 2. 5 days rather than when the embryo was at the 64-cell stage (4-5 days) Was aldous huxley predicting the future when he described breeding farms in his. Ivf has resulted in hundreds of thousands of children but many of the same ethical questions remain. Other things we can do with our current knowledge of basic reproductive biology: biochemical pregnancy testing.
