Cambridge physiologist Dr. Robert Edwards holding the world's first test tube baby Louise Joy Brown ; Louise Joy Brown attends "Joy" Headline Gala during the 68th BFI London Film Festival at The Royal ...

Judy Carr is wheeled out of the hospital holding her daughter Elizabeth Carr. More than eight years had passed since America’s first attempt at a test tube baby. Amid controversy and limitations on ...

When Ellen Casey gave birth 30 years ago, it was cause for celebration. Not only for Ellen, who had suffered through multiple surgeries and a miscarriage during the three years she struggled to ...

NORFOLK, Va. — December 28, 1981: it was a history-making day for science, and it happened right in our backyard. It was the day Elizabeth Carr became the first baby born in the U.S. from in vitro ...

Elizabeth Jordan Carr grew up reading and rereading a letter her first doctor wrote to her the day she was born, telling her that in spite of her unusual conception — in a petri dish — she was a ...

The baby boy, Cameron John Mullinder, weighed just under 6 pounds when he was born Dec. 20 in Bristol. He was conceived naturally. Louise Brown was born July 25, 1978. Three years ago she married ...

The notion that a baby’s beginnings could transpire in a petri dish seems unremarkable today. But not even 50 years ago, researchers’ efforts to devise technologies to allow infertile couples to have ...

The man whose research led to the world's first test-tube baby more than three decades ago, has died at age 87. Robert Edwards, who later won the Nobel Prize, began experimenting with in vitro ...

On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown became the first baby in the world to be born through in vitro fertilization. Known as the first “test-tube baby" — although the IVF process actually takes place on ...