Ryuzo Yanagimachi, whose pioneering contributions to reproductive biology and cloning have impacted millions of people and allowed families to grow, died on September 27, at the age of 95, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine announced. (1970s) The renowned researcher began at UH Mānoa in 1966 as an assistant professor at JABSOM ‘s Department of Anatomy and Reproductive Biology. Yanagimachi, or 'Yana' as he was affectionately called, pioneered cloning and made numerous breakthroughs in mammalian fertilization and other fertilization techniques, such as intracytoplasmic sperm injection ( ICSI ).

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