IVF pioneer Robert Edwards dead at age 87

FILE- The British pioneer of IVF treatment, Professor Robert Edwards sits with two of his 'test-tube-babies', Sophie and Jack Emery who celebrate their second birthday in London in this file photo dated Monday July 20, 1998. The Nobel prize winner for medicine, Edwards who was a pioneer of in-vitro fertilization, which became known as test tube babies, has died aged 87, it is announced Wednesday April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)LONDON (AP) — Robert Edwards, a Nobel laureate from Britain whose pioneering in vitro fertilization research led to the first test tube baby and has since brought millions of people into the world, died Wednesday at age 87.


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