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Polyester gels are typically synthesised in test tubes through simple heating of alpha-hydroxy acids (αHAs); these gels are then rehydrated in aqueous media to generate microdroplets.

So far, in the limited space offered by the test center, the speed has been modest. Once the capsule was in place in the tube, “we launched it with an acceleration similar to that of a metro, up ...

More than eight years had passed since America’s first attempt at a test tube baby. Amid controversy ... research had moved to the peripheries of American science, conducted in institutions ...