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Lab 1 --Z3333427 10:31, 25 July 2012 (EST)

Lab exercises

Lab 1

1) Identify the origin of In Vitro Fertilization and the 2010 nobel prize winner associated with this technique and add a correctly formatted link to the Nobel page.

Dating back to 1953, the first intact human fertilized egg was extracted by John Rock reported by the Australian Foxton School researchers to be only a transient biochemical pregnancy. The first pregnancy made possible by in vitro human fertilisation (IVF) was reported in 1973 by the Lancet from Monash University, however the pregnancy itself only lasted a small number of days. It was not until 1978 that the first child (Louise Brown) was born with the help of IVF. The process was carried out by Steptoe and Edward successfully the year before. IVF History

At the Nobel price ceremony in 2010, Robert Edwards, was awarded the price in Physiology or Medicine for his contribution in the field of human infertility and the development of IVF treatment. Nobel price page

2)Identify and add a PubMed reference link to a recent paper on fertilisation and describe its key findings (1-2 paragraphs).

- <pubmed>22611166</pubmed>