Test tube laureates
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 08:50
in Health & Medicine
Robert G. Edwards, the "father of the test tube baby," won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine yesterday for developing in vitro fertilization, a process involving the fertilization of human eggs outside a womans body. This technology was first used successfully in 1978, and since then an estimated four million babies have been born in this way.