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, ...

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 baby boy, Cameron John Mullinder, weighed just under 6 pounds when he was born Dec. 20 in Bristol. He was conceived naturally. Louise Brown was born July 25, 1978. Three years ago she married ...

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 ...

An awful lot of people at large in the world began their lives in a dish. Just over 30 years ago, a British baby named Louise Brown became the first viable child conceived by in vitro fertilization.

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 ...

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.