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体外受精先駆者にノーベル賞
ノーベル賞委員会は10月4日、ノーベル医学生理学賞を体外受精技術を開発した英国のロバート・エドワーズ氏に贈ると発表した。
IVF pioneer wins Novel Prize in medicine
Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine Oct. 4 for developing in vitro fertilization, a controversial breakthrough that ignited sharp criticism from religious leaders but helped millions of infertile couples in the past three decades have children.
Edwards, an 85-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, started working on IVF as early as the 1950's. He developed the technique — in which egg cells are removed from a woman, fertilized outside her body and then implanted into the womb — together with gynecologist surgeon Patrick Steptoe, who died in 1988. On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown in Britain became the first baby born through the procedure, marking a revolution in fertility treatment.
Edward's achievements have made it possible to treat infertility. (AP)
- IVF(=in vitro fertilization)
- 体外受精
- controversial
- 賛否両論のある
- breakthrough
- 画期的なこと
- ignited
- 〜に火を付けた
- infertile
- 不妊の
- professor emeritus
- 名誉教授
- (are)fertilized
- 受精される
- (are)implanted into 〜
- 〜に埋め込まれる
- womb
- 子宮
- gynecologist
- 婦人科医
- procedure
- 手順、手段
- marking a revolution
- 革命を起こした
- infertility
- 不妊症