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 ...

Explore the transformative journey of in vitro fertilization from controversy to routine practice celebrating its 25th anniversary. Louise Brown—nursery-school aide, occasional pub crawler, and the ...

IN NOVEMBER 1968, we reported on the latest attempts at in vitro fertilisation. It had so far only been successful in rabbits, and seemed very far from reality in humans. The prospect was clearly a ...

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