British "test tube baby" pioneer Robert Edwards dies

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British "test tube baby" pioneer Robert Edwards dies

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/british-test-tube-baby-pioneer-robert-edwards-dies-131355837.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/QBkwK6o7.l.rRI_zyUn4wg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-04-10T165557Z_3_CBRE93914PV00_RTROPTP_2_HEALTH-IVF-EDWARDS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="File photo of Professor Robert Edwards in Cambridgeshire" align="left" title="File photo of Professor Robert Edwards in Cambridgeshire" border="0" /></a>By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Robert Edwards, the scientist known as the father of IVF for pioneering the development of &quot;test tube babies&quot; for couples unable to conceive naturally, died on Wednesday aged 87. The Briton, who won the Nobel medicine prize for his achievement in 2010, started developing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in 1955 - work that culminated in 1978 in the birth of Louise Brown, the first so-called test tube baby. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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