Rejected bribes from Middle Eastern potentates, kisses from female MPs,
skiing trips with the biomedical team—you gather that life is rarely
boring for media favourite Robert Winston. He gives his personal view as a
leading practitioner of IVF and embryo research in Making Babies (BBC Books,
£9.99, ISBN 0 563 38721 1).
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