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World's first IVF baby born in Oldham turns 47
OLDHAM, GREATER MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, JUL 25 – Louise Brown's birth followed 12 years of IVF research by Drs. Steptoe and Edwards, overcoming early controversy to help infertile couples worldwide.
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History Today: When Louise Brown’s birth marked the dawn of IVF
On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown became the world’s first IVF-baby — ushering in a new era of reproductive medicine and giving hope to millions. On this day in 2007, Pratibha Patil became India’s first woman president, Mata Hari's espionage trial ends in 1917, and Svetlana Savitskaya made the first female spacewalk in 1984
On July 25, 1978, a baby born in northern England changed the history of science forever. It was the first person in the world conceived outside the womb, in a laboratory, by joining an egg and a sperm in controlled conditions, which is known as "in vitro" fertilization. Although today this technique is used worldwide by people with difficulties in conceiving, at that time it generated intense scientific, ethical and religious debates. The news …
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