
70 Years of Science Innovation
5 Live Science Podcast
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Is It All Going to End?
Took more than a decade for the pair, who also recruited research nurse jean pardy to join the effort. They had to work out the right harmone levels for retrieving the eggs and how to handle the extracted eggs so they remained alive and healthy outside the body. And critically, they had to discover when to put them back into the woman so they could implant the technology finally triumphed in 19 78. Many of those born by i v f have gone on to have their own healthy children that have been conceived naturally.
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