Science now wants a happy 21st birthday of the first test tube baby, Louise Joy Brown, born in England 25 July 1978. Brown debuted through in vitro fertilization technique developed by the gynecologist Patrick Steptoe and physiologist Robert G. Edwards. The success has attracted praise and ethical debates
Steptoe pioneered the use of laparoscopic surgery -. In which a long, thin telescope is inserted through a small incision in the abdominal cavity inflated - and he has developed a method for obtaining eggs from the ovaries. Edwards understood how to fertilize eggs outside the body and got his first success in 1968. In 1972, the pair attempted the first settlement, but had no luck until 1977. Critics have expressed concerns ethical and moral about the falsification of the creation of human life, and Steptoe and Edwards were reluctant to discuss the new procedure. They finally presented their work to the scientific community in 1979.
Brown was the first, but it is hardly the only test tube baby life today. . According to a global survey by the pharmaceutical company Oragnon, by 1994 more than 150,000 babies worldwide were born after in vitro fertilization
[Sources:EmilyMcMurrayEd Notable The Twentieth Century scientists (Gale Research Inc., ITP, 1995).]
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