Career 2008: chair of Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; 1989 - 2008: reader in renaissance studies, Queen Mary, University of London; 1976 - 89: lecturer in English, Cambridge University; 1971 - 74: post-doctoral research fellow, Warburgh Institute. (theguardian.com)
France's national committee on bioethics has called for a clampdown on clinics offering an increasingly popular form of in vitro fertilisation in which a single sperm is injected directly into an egg. (newscientist.com)
The complex mechanisms which orchids have evolved to achieve cross-pollination were investigated by Charles Darwin and described in Fertilisation of Orchids (1862). (en.wikipedia.org)