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In clinical terms, IVF involves removing eggs from a woman, fertilizing them in a lab with sperm and implanting embryos in the uterus.

It was designed to roam the fields, planting and fertilizing and harvesting the feed crops.

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"We have these fertilized eggs from many, many different genetic backgrounds and we raise them over a series of days until we have coral babies, coral teenagers," she explains.

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Instead of treating her, the hospital sent her home, and the fertilized egg later ruptured, requiring emergency surgery to remove part of her reproductive system.

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He does a lot more for his clients — trimming plants, fertilizing and weeding too.

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