Why the MRC didn’t fund research that led to the birth of the world’s first test tube baby

Saturday, July 24, 2010 - 19:49 in Health & Medicine

Thirty-two years ago today, the world’s first baby was born after in vitro fertilisation. However, the work that led to the birth of Louise Brown on 25 July 1978 had to be privately funded...

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