To science, she’s simply known as “184.” But on the empirical cuteness scale, the world’s first test-tube penguin scores a “100.” The still unnamed baby Magellanic penguin was hatched at SeaWorld in ...

Judy Carr is wheeled out of the hospital holding her daughter Elizabeth Carr. More than eight years had passed since America’s first attempt at a test tube baby. Amid controversy and limitations on ...

On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown became the first baby in the world to be born through in vitro fertilization. Known as the first “test-tube baby" — although the IVF process actually takes place on ...

On Aug. 3, 1983, Elizabeth Casey became the state's first "test tube baby," conceived through in vitro fertilization. At the time, five years after the first in vitro birth, to a mother in England, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since Louise Brown's birth in 1978, millions of babies have been born through IVF Louise Brown is used to the public eye — her birth having been televised for all the world to see. What made her ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Belgian doctors have developed a low-cost version of test-tube baby technology for use in developing countries, where sophisticated Western systems are unaffordable for most couples ...

Elizabeth Jordan Carr grew up reading and rereading a letter her first doctor wrote to her the day she was born, telling her that in spite of her unusual conception — in a petri dish — she was a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Robert Edwards, the scientist known as the father of IVF for pioneering the development of "test tube babies" for couples unable to conceive naturally, died on Wednesday aged 87.

Robert Edwards, a British Nobel prize-winning scientist who pioneered the development of "test tube babies" conceived through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), died on Wednesday after a long illness, his ...