"En l'absence de tout document vérifiable, la parthénogenèse chez les mammifères n'est pas une réalité." - Jean-Francois
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0409.html
Dr. Pincus became known to the general public when newspapers printed articles about his experiments and research with "fatherless" rabbits.
In 1939, while a professor of experimental zoology at Clark University in Worchester, Mass., he brought about the first fatherless mammalian birth in history by inducing parthenogenesis in a female rabbit. He used high temperature, hormone treatments and salt solutions to fertilize the ovum in a test tube.
He then implanted the developing egg in the reproductive tract of the female rabbit, where the egg matured through the normal stages.
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http://www.all.org/issues/clonrini.htm
Also, in the same period as the Spemann work, two U.S. Rockefeller grantees, Gregory Pincus and Jacques Loeb, were experimenting with another radical reproductive technique, parthenogenesis. This is the manipulative method of shocking the female into pregnancy by using x-rays, chemicals or other "inducers." Loeb made some "monsters" this way, whose photographs were carried in U.S. newspapers. Pincus' rabbit, allegedly also produced by parthenogenesis, regaled the cover of Look magazine in 1937. In fact, in the late 19th century, the very first experimental embryologist, Curt Herbst, had communicated with Loeb, who was regarded as the quintessential "human engineer." Loeb often said (and wrote) that he wanted, at long last, to take "angels out of the universe" (referring to a popular belief that angels can change matter).
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