In vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a boon to infertile couples. Dr. Robert Geoffrey Edwards and Dr. Patrick Christopher Steptoe in England and Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay in India were the pioneers of successful human IVF that resulted in the births of world’s first and second in vitro babies respectively. This article takes you on the historic journeys of the masterminds behind IVF.
Pregnancy rate and live birth rate in IVF greatly depends on the age of the parent. Still, this assisted reproductive technology is a great source of hope for infertile couples across the world to becoming parents. IVF is now well accepted and important procedure to achieve assisted fertility. Although it’s standardized now, it took lots of pioneering groundworks to helped IVF take shape of today’s form. The First Successful IVF Dr. Edwards was an English physiologist (born on 27 th September 1925 in…
