Robert Edwards
Robert Edwards
alan altering based early edinburgh human mouse university work
My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my research was based on his work on altering chromosomal complements in mouse embryos.
human pluck struck trying
It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could do this in animals increasingly... this was the way to go in the human species.
brother dad defence left points red score scoring tremendous
The defence had a tremendous game. We left some points on the field. We've got to score when we get in the red zone. But my brother scoring and for me to score and with my dad being here, well. . .