Man behind the miracle: A handout picture taken on July12, 2008,shows British scientist Prof Robert Edwards (left) posing with the world
The birth of Louise Brown, the world’s first IVF baby, 35 years ago this month, was the start of a revolution in fertility treatment. Five million IVF babies have now been born and new techniques are evolving.
THERE’S an old bell jar that sits on top of a cupboard at a Cambridgeshire fertility clinic where history was made; it was in a dish inside this jar that the world’s first IVF (in vitro fertilisation) baby spent the hours after her conception.
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