STOCKHOLM - British physiologist Robert Edwards, whose work led to the first "test-tube baby", has won the 2010 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology.
Yesterday, Sweden's Karolinska Institute lauded Edwards, 85, for bringing joy to infertile people all over the world.
Known as the father of in-vitro fertilisation, Edwards won the more than R10,4million prize for what the institute called a "milestone in the development of modern medicine".
About four million babies have been born since the first IVF baby in 1978 as a result of the techniques Edwards developed, together with a now-deceased colleague, Patrick Steptoe .
Working at Cambridge University in the UK, they began replacing embryos into infertile mothers in 1972. On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, was born.
Test-tube baby doctor awarded Nobel prize
STOCKHOLM - British physiologist Robert Edwards, whose work led to the first "test-tube baby", has won the 2010 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology.
Yesterday, Sweden's Karolinska Institute lauded Edwards, 85, for bringing joy to infertile people all over the world.
Known as the father of in-vitro fertilisation, Edwards won the more than R10,4million prize for what the institute called a "milestone in the development of modern medicine".
About four million babies have been born since the first IVF baby in 1978 as a result of the techniques Edwards developed, together with a now-deceased colleague, Patrick Steptoe .
Working at Cambridge University in the UK, they began replacing embryos into infertile mothers in 1972. On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, was born.
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