IVF pioneer Edwards wins Nobel medicine prize

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Source: Washington Post

By KARL RITTER and MALIN RISING
The Associated Press
Monday, October 4, 2010; 6:01 AM
STOCKHOLM -- Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for the development of in-vitro fertilization, a breakthrough that has helped millions of infertile couples to have children.

"His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a medical condition afflicting a large proportion of humanity including more than 10 percent of all couples worldwide," the medicine prize committee in Stockholm said in its citation.

Edwards, an 85-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, started working on IVF already in 1950s. He developed the technique, in which egg cells are fertilized outside the body and implanted in the womb, together with Patrick Steptoe, who died in 1988.

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1. kick n/t

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2. Vatican official criticises Nobel win for IVF pioneer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11472753

Won't anyone think of the embryos! :sarcasm:

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3. Congratulations indeed ...

... to the team that made it possible for infertility to be inherited!
:crazy:

There aren't enough consumers on the planet already so let's make even
more - especially in the rich, greedy, resource-wasting countries!

Technically, I applaud the scientific ability of the people concerned.
It's just a shame that they didn't think it through.