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--Karla Jerez 12:55, 28 July 2011 (EST)

Lab 1

1. Identify the origin of In Vitro Fertilization and the 2010 nobel prize winner associated with this technique.

The first successful IVF occurred in the UK in 1978 and Robert G. Edwards was awarded the Nobel Prize for this technique in 2010.Lecture - 2011 Course Introduction

2. Identify a recent paper on fertilisation and describe its key findings.

"Improved pregnancy rate with administration of hCG after intrauterine insemination: a pilot study" by Ilkka Y Järvelä, Juha S Tapanainen and Hannu Martikainen. Published on 23 February 2010 by Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology journal. They found that Intrauterine insemination (IUI), a common fertility treatment, improved pregnancy rate when hCG (human chorionic gonadotrophin)was administered after instead of before IUI. Pregnancy rates were 10.9% when hCG was given before IUI and 19.6% when hCG was given after IUI.[1]

3. Identify 2 congenital anomalies.

-Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome) occurs when an extra copy of chromosome 21 is present -Myelodysplasia (Spina bifida) is a condition where the fetus' spin fails to close in the first few months of pregnancy