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Nature 413, 349-351 (27 September 2001) | doi:10.1038/35096649
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IVF and the history of stem cells
R. G. Edwards1
- R.G. Edwards is Editor of Reproductive BioMedicine Online, Duck End Farm, Dry Drayton, Cambridge CB3 8DB, UK, and winner of the 2001 Lasker Award for clinical research (see Nature 413, 242; 2001).
On the verge of clinical application, stem cells offer a startlingly fundamental approach to alleviating severe incurable human maladies. Fondly believed to be a recent development, they have in fact been part and parcel of human in-vitro fertilization (IVF) from as long ago as 1962.
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