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Embryo Transfer and Sensitivity to Teralogenesis

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This article was submitted at a working party jointly set up by the British Association for the Advancement of Science and Nature to study the scientific, legal, political and religious implications of recent advances in biology that increase the possibilities for the control of human development and heredity.

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AUSTIN, C. Embryo Transfer and Sensitivity to Teralogenesis. Nature 244, 333–334 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/244333a0

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