The notion that a baby’s beginnings could transpire in a petri dish seems unremarkable today. But not even 50 years ago, researchers’ efforts to devise technologies to allow infertile couples to have ...

Cambridge physiologist Dr. Robert Edwards holding the world's first test tube baby Louise Joy Brown ; Louise Joy Brown attends "Joy" Headline Gala during the 68th BFI London Film Festival at The Royal ...

On Aug. 3, 1983, Elizabeth Casey became the state's first "test tube baby," conceived through in vitro fertilization. At the time, five years after the first in vitro birth, to a mother in England, ...

Explore the transformative journey of in vitro fertilization from controversy to routine practice celebrating its 25th anniversary. Louise Brown—nursery-school aide, occasional pub crawler, and the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Robert Edwards, the scientist known as the father of IVF for pioneering the development of "test tube babies" for couples unable to conceive naturally, died on Wednesday aged 87.

Judy Carr is wheeled out of the hospital holding her daughter Elizabeth Carr. More than eight years had passed since America’s first attempt at a test tube baby. Amid controversy and limitations on ...

The ugly side of test-tube baby technology in Kenya has been documented, as the country’s first children from the procedure celebrate their 11th birthday on The case involves a 34-year-old woman who ...

On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown became the first baby in the world to be born through in vitro fertilization. Known as the first “test-tube baby" — although the IVF process actually takes place on ...