In vitro fertilization issue won the Nobel Prize 2010. by Milota Sidorova

So far, the Nobel Prize 2010 in medicine has created a sensation in both ways.The most prestigious award went to Robert Edwards of Britain, 85-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge for development and progress in in vitro fertilization. Though the topic is not that new, the prize waited more than three decades for right timing. Begining of the research dates back to 1978 when the first tube baby was born. But this way of child bearing has caused so much troubles and even now the society remains torn apart. While it is praised by at least eight million parents who could have a baby this way, it is strongly criticized by Vatikan. The third group in the pr! ocess are critics who object that creating embryo and new human life (understand flesh, cells and chemicals) can easily become a subject of huge business. Creating new cells, it also means to be able to create conditions for new organs, core cells needed in transplantations and many more medical operations. There is also ethic problem called by some observers „externalization“ of human life, somewhat remaining Pandora problem. Nobody knows what to expect, once there will be abilities to create and control human life. Neither law systems, nor society has been prepared for this situation and it there is a little hope, they will be solved once and for all. Edwards got the Nobel Prize by himself, although he worked for decades of years with his research partner Patrick Steptoe who died in 1998. But Nobel Prize are not posthumous.

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