Loading descriptions...
The story of Louise Brown, the world's first successful test tube
baby, born in Great Britain on July 25, 1978.
She was described in the press as the "Baby of the Century." When
Louise Brown, the world's first successful test tube baby, was born
in Great Britain on July 25, 1978, the event was heralded as the
beginning of a technological revolution in human reproduction. It
was also the culmination of a decade-long effort, involving
scientists on both sides of the Atlantic, to help a woman conceive
through in vitro fertilization, or IVF. This is the story of two
doctors - New York gynecologist Landrum Shettles and British
physiologist Robert Edwards - whose work became the locus of debate
over the limits of science and a precursor of the current debate
over cloning and stem cell research.