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🗓️ 25 July 2024
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July 25, 1978. The first baby conceived via IVF is born in England, marking the success of an 18-year medical research project.
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0:32.0 | 28 year old graduate student Robert Edwards opens the door to his laboratory and politely gestures for his companion to enter. |
0:40.0 | After spending the evening in a bar with Robert, fellow student Ruth Fowler is eager to see the |
0:45.1 | research project he spent the last few hours talking about. |
0:49.6 | The two students tiptoe inside the dark room both a little tipsy. |
0:54.0 | Ruth stumbles into a table while Robert feels along the wall for the light switch. |
0:59.3 | Robert finds a switch and when the lights come on Ruth sees row upon row of cages lying in the |
1:05.8 | countertops and inside are hundreds of mice. This is what Robert Jobially |
1:10.7 | refers to as the Mouse House. |
1:13.0 | Robert is a scientist studying the reproduction of mice. |
1:16.0 | He has to inspect these rodents when they're most likely to breed, |
1:20.0 | and that's when the sun's down. |
1:22.0 | But even though Ruth is a student at the same university, |
1:25.0 | bringing an outsider into the lab is forbidden. |
1:28.0 | If they're caught, Robert could get in trouble. |
1:30.0 | So they try to keep quiet. |
1:37.2 | But Robert also wants to impress Ruth. He unlatches one of the cage doors and fumbles to extract a mouse for Ruth to hold. The creature |
1:41.9 | wriggles out of Robert's grip though and lands at their feet before |
1:45.0 | shooting across the floor. Soon the two students are scrambling all over the lab on |
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