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In IVF, an unrecognised contributor gets the spotlight: Jean Purdy

Purdy was the first to recognise and describe the formation of the early human blastocyst – the cluster of cells that forms five or six days after a sperm fertilises an egg, in the culture, a key milestone in pre-implantation development

· 8/16/2026, 11:46:31 AM· 2 min read
In IVF, an unrecognised contributor gets the spotlight: Jean Purdy
Purdy was the first to recognise and describe the formation of the early human blastocyst – the cluster of cells that forms five or six days after a sperm fertilises an egg, in the culture, a key milestone in pre-implantation development
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