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Chapter 19 - Gamete Preparation and Embryo Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2019

By
Karen Schnauffer
Edited by
Jane A. Stewart
Jane A. Stewart
Affiliation:
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Summary

The pioneers of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) were Robert Edwards, a scientist working at Cambridge University, and Patrick Steptoe, a gynaecologic surgeon from Oldham, who collaborated together to develop the techniques required to collect human eggs from the ovary and fertilise them in the laboratory. The birth of Louise Brown in 1978 is regarded as the single most important milestone in the world of assisted conception as it revealed that babies could be born as a result of eggs and sperm being mixed together in a laboratory to create embryos which were then transferred back into the patient’s uterus to create a pregnancy; a process known as IVF [1].

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Subfertility, Reproductive Endocrinology and Assisted Reproduction , pp. 146 - 152
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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