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In-vitro fertilization is one of the most common infertility treatments, but less than 50 years ago, researchers and the women among them were still working to create and develop the procedure that now accounts for thousands of births in the U.S. each year. IVF is a medical procedure in which an egg is fertilized by sperm in a lab or elsewhere outside of the body, and the fertilized eggs, or embryos, are then placed into the body, according to the Mayo Clinic.
'I think that the situation is that today there’s a lot of behind-the-scenes folks in medicine and science that really don’t get recognition at all,' Marsh said. 'I think that was the case then, and that was the case now.' 'She made an incredibly important contribution,' Marsh said of Purdy. 'Edwards and Steptoe always told everybody that she was an equal partner.
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