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 ...

When she arrived into the world 45 years ago this week, Louise Joy Brown looked like any other baby. But it was the press coverage followed closely by millions across the world that signalled just why ...

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.

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, ...

NORFOLK, Va. — December 28, 1981: it was a history-making day for science, and it happened right in our backyard. It was the day Elizabeth Carr became the first baby born in the U.S. from in vitro ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Elizabeth Carr, the first baby born via in vitro fertilization in the U.S. at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, is speaking out against a controversial Alabama Supreme Court ...

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 ...

Miss England 2012 winner Charlotte Holmes has revealed that she hopes to make history by becoming the first Miss World to be conceived by IVF. The 23-year-old recently told how she was one of the ...

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 ...

Robert Edwards, a British Nobel prize-winning scientist who pioneered the development of "test tube babies" conceived through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), died on Wednesday after a long illness, his ...