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My Life with Mammalian Eggs

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Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Implantation

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It is my belief that the late Sir John Hammond of Cambridge University accepted me as a research student in 1939 because I found two cow eggs under an old-fashioned compound microscope after removal of the objective lens. But I did very little work on mammalian eggs there. My research work in England was mainly concerned with the metabolism of ram spermatozoa and artificial insemination. I started my work on rabbit eggs in early 1945 when I came to the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. The Foundation was newly established by H. Hoagland, a neurophysiologist, and the late Gregory Pincus, who was at that time the only person in the world able to fertilize rabbit eggs in vitro.

The author is a Research Career Awardee of NICHD (K6-HD-18,334).

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Chang, M.C. (1981). My Life with Mammalian Eggs. In: Glasser, S.R., Bullock, D.W. (eds) Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Implantation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3180-3_2

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