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Nobel Prize given for test tube baby research (AP)

2:03am GMT, Tuesday, 5 October 2010

In this 2008 photo made available by the Bourn Hall Clinic, British physiologist Robert Edwards attends the 30th birthday party of the world's first 'test tube' fertilization baby Louise Joy Brown, at the Bourn Hall, in Bourn, England. A British scientist who developed test tube fertilization and gave thousands of infertile couples the chance to have children, has received the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine, it was announced on Monday, Oct. 4, 2010. Starting in the 1950's, Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe developed the so-called IVF technology where egg cells are fertilized by sperm outside the body. Steptoe died in 1988. (AP Photo/Bourn Hall Clinic) ** ONE TIME USE ONLY, NO ARCHIVE, NO LIBRARY RETENTION**AP - The Nobel Prize in medicine went to a man whose work led to the first test tube baby, an achievement that helped bring 4 million infants into the world and raised challenging new questions about human reproduction.



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