Both Uses of
in vitro fertilization
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- I've tried to imagine how she'd feel knowing that her cells went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to human cells in zero gravity, or that they helped with some of the most important advances in medicine: the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization.†
Chpt Pro.
- The early cell culture and cloning technology developed using HeLa helped lead to many later advances that required the ability to grow single cells in culture, including isolating stem cells, cloning whole animals, and in vitro fertilization.†
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Definition:
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(in vitro fertilization) assisting conception by combining egg and sperm in a laboratory and then implanting the fertilized egg in the uterus