British "test tube baby" pioneer Robert Edwards dies
LONDON (Reuters) - Robert Edwards, a British Nobel prize-winning scientist who pioneered the development of "test tube babies" conceived through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), died on Wednesday after a long illness, his university said. Edwards, who won the Nobel prize for medicine in 2010, started work on fertilisation in the 1950s, and the first so-called test tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in 1978 as a result of his pioneering research. He founded the world's first IVF clinic in his home town of Cambridge, eastern England in 1980. ...
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