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Robert Edwards: the path to IVF

21 May 2011

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The early influences on Robert Edwards' approach to the scientific research that led to human IVF are described. His interest as a graduate student in the genetics of early mammalian development stimulated him later to investigate whether the origins of human genetic diseases such as Down, Klinefelter and Turner syndromes might be explained by events during egg maturation. This clinical problem provided the most...

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PMID: 21680248
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.04.010

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