The British physiologist Robert Edwards has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2010 for his pioneering research on in vitro fertilization, which culminated in 1978 with the birth of the first test tube baby, Louise Brown.
In two decades of the late 1950s to 1978, the Briton Robert Edwards worked on obtaining embryos after in vitro fertilization (IVF) and collaborated with the obstetrician Patrick Steptoe (d. 1988). On July 27, 1978, Lesley Brown gave birth to Louise, immediately qualified test tube baby and now mother of a child of three years.
The couple took Brown by the same method, a second daughter (a «ZIFT» as they say) and since then four million children are born that way, fertilization in the laboratory. «His discoveries have made possible the treatment of infertility which affects a large proportion of humanity and more than 10% of couples worldwide,» said the Nobel committee said in a statement after the award of the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2010.
Futura-Sciences will elaborate on the work of this great physiologist 85.
Robert Geoffrey Edwards is considered the pioneer of in vitro fertilization.
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