Word: transferring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...method is embryo transfer...
...hormone that causes multiple ovulation, the production of more than one egg. The eggs are then fertilized by artificial insemination and, about a week later, the live embryos-usually five, but sometimes ten or more-are withdrawn through the cervix by means of a catheter. Each embryo is then transferred, either by a six-inch incision in the side or directly through the cervix, to the uterus of a less perfect host mother, which carries the superior calf to full term. Since supercows, or "queen bees," can be bred seven times a year, each can produce 35 or more embryos...
...cost: about $300 for consultation and the initial work plus $400 for every successful pregnancy. Dr. Kourken Bedirian, a Canadian physiologist who has pioneered the transfer of cow embryos, says that the success rate has averaged more than 60%. About 10,000 transferred calves have been born since the process moved from the lab to the barn in the early 1970s, and the procedure is rapidly spreading in the U.S. and Canada. For Bossie, motherhood will never be quite the same again...
...Canadian side. "The company said they'd take care of the details," he remembers. But they didn't do it right away. After several days at work, Walsh was stopped at the Canadian customs house on his way to work. He told them about his transfer...
...able to terrorize civilians and harass Vietnamese units immobilized by the monsoons. Last month Khmers thought to be loyal to Hanoi's new regime in Phnom-Penh expelled the Vietnamese garrison from the river port of Kratie. Though the town was quickly recaptured, the startled Vietnamese began to transfer Pathet Lao troops from Laos as a means of guaranteeing village security...