Father Of The Test Tube Baby Robert G. Edwards Wins 2010 Nobel Prize In Medicine
Monday, October 4, 2010 - 10:11
in Health & Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 was awarded to Robert G. Edwards "for the development of in vitro fertilization". Their reasoning seemed to be partly cultural - that Edwards battled societal and establishment resistance to his development of the in vitro fertilization procedure, which has so far led to the birth of around 4 million people. Edwards, now 85 and professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, began working on IVF in the 1950s and developed the technique with British gynecologist Patrick Steptoe, who died in 1988. In IVF, egg cells are removed from the mother and fertilized outside her body and then implanted into the womb. read more