On this day - July 25th 1978 - The first test-tube baby was born
In Vitro Fertilisation, IFV or test-tube baby is a process where an egg is fertilized with sperm outside of the body. Louise Brown was the first test-tube baby to be born. She was born on this day in 1978 in England. Her parents had been trying to conceive for years previous to the successful IFV in November 1977. Several other people have become pregnant using this method ever since and Louise Browns sister was one of them four years later. Robert Edwards won the Nobel prize in medicine in 2010 for developing IFV.
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