in vitro fertilization: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	test-tube conception • IVF

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In vitro fertilization

The first American born via in vitro fertilization

Robert Edwards and Louise Brown

Portrait of a white woman beside a close-up of an IVF embryo with a micropipette and an arrow; she holds a LIFE magazine cover titled 'Test-Tube Baby Boom'.

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Key People

Ohsumi, Yoshinori

Yoshinori Ohsumi

Japanese biologist

Robert Edwards and Louise Brown

Robert Edwards

British medical researcher

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Dame Anne McLaren

English geneticist

Portrait of a white woman beside a close-up of an IVF embryo with a micropipette and an arrow; she holds a LIFE magazine cover titled 'Test-Tube Baby Boom'.

Patrick Steptoe

British gynecologist

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