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 ...

On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown was born in the United Kingdom and her birth quickly caught the media's attention, as she was the world's first "test tube baby." In other words, Brown was the first ...

Archival research has revealed how poet and physician Dr. Dannie Abse rewrote the autobiography of Dr. Robert Edwards and Dr.

On July 25, 1978, the world's first "test tube baby" was born. Louise Brown was the first person conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and her birth eventually led to one of her doctors ...

Previously unseen documents show how a poet performed a major ghostwriting job on the autobiography of the two British pioneers behind the world's first "test-tube baby," so that the book used ...

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on the birth of a test tube baby intended from birth to help his sister. The sister is six years old and has a rare disease that prevents her from creating her own bone ...

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 Mahabharata, one of the greatest epics of ancient India, has stories that combine mythology, history, and science. One ...

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 ...