We expect in two or three months to do an ultrasound to check the embryos and eggs development. After fertilization we are talking a year for pups to be born and with seven gills there could be 60 or more pups.

If you think of in-vitro fertilization in stages, from stimulating egg production, to retrieving eggs, to fertilizing them and transferring them, they're really good at stimulating and retrieving them, and fertilization rates are high. The rate-limiting step is implantation into the uterus. This is one mechanism where you might improve that.

With this size accident you would expect a factual report in about three months ... and an analysis in nine to 12 months - it depends what they find.

You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.

Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.

It prevents ovulation, implantation or fertilization.