“It is undignified to inject yourself with hormones designed to slow or enhance ovarian production. It is undignified to have your ovaries monitored by transvaginal ultrasound; to be sedated so that your eggs can be aspirated into a needle; to have your husband emerge sheepishly from a locked room with the “sample” that will be combined with your eggs under supervision of an embryologist. The grainy photo they hand you on transfer day, of your eight-celled embryo (which does not look remotely like a baby), is undignified, and so is all the waiting and despairing that follows.” WaitingMedicineFertilityInfertilityReproductive HealthDispairIvfEmbryologyUndignified Book:The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood Source: The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
“I check every can of Barbasol I buy for dinosaur embryos. I haven't found any yet, as evidenced by the lack of T-Rex screams in my apartment.” FunnyApartmentHumorous QuotesDinosaursShavingJurassic ParkEmbryonic Stem Cell ResearchT RexShaving CreamDinosaurEmbryoJurassicShaving HumorEmbryologyBarbasolEmbryonicShave CreamTrex Author:Ryan Lilly
“The extracellular genesis of cells in animals seemed to me, ever since the publication of the cell theory [of Schwann], just as unlikely as the spontaneous generation of organisms. These doubts produced my observations on the multiplication of blood cells by division in bird and mammalian embryos and on the division of muscle bundles in frog larvae. Since then I have continued these observations in frog larvae, where it is possible to follow the history of tissues back to segmentation.” ScienceHistoryObservationCellsBiologyGenesisEmbryologyCell TheorySchwannTheodor Schwann Author:Robert Remak