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 ...

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 ...

For 40 years and counting, every "Sunday Morning" broadcast opens with our Cover Story – sometimes big, even traumatic events, to be sure. But we've also brought you stories of uplift and hope about ...

40 years ago, on July 25, 1978, Louise Brown became the world's first "test-tube baby." Newsweek featured the remarkable infant on its cover the following week and published a long piece about the ...

On July 25, 1978, the world's first "test tube baby" was born. Louise Brown was the first person conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and her birth eventually led to one of her doctors ...

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 ...