Physical Anthropology is unknown for many people, rather Anthropology is unknown in general. We don know the implications about biological social and cultural terms in opur society. One of the most problems or items studied in Anthropology is the conception of life and reproduction. Because is a basic feauture in all humans.
So the vitro fertilisation, its a really big medicall advance with Anthropological consequences not only for physical Anthropology also for social . Since Louise Brown created the first test tube baby. Robert Edwards also develop the IVf technique received the 10m Swedish-kronor prize in an announcement today by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
Edwards was born in 1925 in Manchester and,studied biology at the University of Wales in Bangor and at Edinburgh University. He studied the development of emrbryeos in mice in 1955 and He was a profesor on Cambridege
The main consequence of IVF is the posibility for many couples have children and it tooks two decades of basuc scientific study of the life cycle of human eggs before Edwards were able to successfully fertilise them outside the human body in 1969
As Edward says "The most important thing in life is having a child," the antrhopologist impact is very clear if we think about life conception as a esencial human characteristic..
Lesley and John Brown ( the couple of the first paragraph) had come to Edwards and Steptoe at Bourn Hall Clinic in the late 1970s, after nine years of failed attempts to have a child. Edwards and Steptoe carried out the IVF technique on one of Mrs Brown's eggs and then re-implanted it after it had become an embryo consisting of eight cells. Louise was born by caesarean section after a full-term pregnancy.
This monumental advance has advanced for three decades for example: a single sperm can now be injected directly into an egg and the extraction of eggs from ovaries has been improved so that it causes less trauma. And in these days we give the nobel prize to the man that made it possible
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/04/ivf-pioneer-robert-edwards-nobel-prize-medicine
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