Nobel Prizes

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Today's post I think that it is different but at the same time really interesting, and I hope you would like it as much as I like it when Ana, our teacher of ICT, explained us the topic to write about in our blogs. The topic is about people who had won a Nobel Prize, and from all people who had won a prize I have chosen Robert G. Edward's prize of 2010, on the section of Physicology and Medicine because of the development he made in vitro fertilization. Basically I chose it because I like medicine section, and I think, that any development on this sector significates a lot for all humans and our health.

ROBERT G. EDWARD NOBEL PRIZE

       Robert G. Edward was born in 1925 in Batley, England. After military service in the Second World War, he studied biology at the University of Wales in Bangor and at Edinburg university in Scotland. After been studding years, he became a staff scientist at the National Institute for Medical Research in London in 1958 and that same year, he initiated the human fertilization process. 

         Many years of investigation later, he innovating different method to solve the infertilitatiot, fertilizaing outside the body. The new technique took the name of IVF treatment, was used fertilizing an egg and developed into an enbryo with 8 cells, later this was returned to the mothers womb. In 1977 the firts "test tube baby" was borned healthy and save. 

 

           IVF had move from vision to reality and a new era in medicine had begun. By 1986 more than 1.000 children had already been born following IVF. Today, IVF is an established therapy all over the world. It has developed  several important improvements now, single sperm can be microinjected directly into the egg cell in the culture dish. IVF is a safe and effective therapy, 20-30% of fertilized eggs lead to the birth of a child and studies have shown that children borned in this way are as healthy as other children.
 

 Do some of these children had been born by IVF method?

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If you are interested in todays topic, here I let you more Nobel Prizes from the last 12 years: Nobel Prizes (2001-2012)