For eleven years Dr. Arthur Tremain Hertig of Harvard Medical School has been trying to study a human embryo in the first hours after conception. Last week, Dr. Hertig told the International and Fourth American Congress on Obstetrics and Gynecology, meeting in Manhattan, that he had succeeded in studying the youngest human yet: he had put under the microscope a specimen which was obtained only 60 hours after the ovum had been fertilized.
Such human embryos can only be studied after surgery (removal of the uterus and Fallopian tubes) which happens to take place shortly after conception. Ten years ago, Dr. Hertig...
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