Category: History of IVF

45 years of IVF bringing ‘Joy’ to people around the world
Posted - July 25, 2023

Louise Brown celebrates World Embryologist Day at Bourn Hall
Posted - July 24, 2023

Theramex brings Spanish IVF consultants to Bourn Hall, the birthplace of IVF
Posted - May 10, 2023

A message for ‘quietly determined’ women on a fertility journey
Posted - March 17, 2023

Australian IVF campaigner and Bourn Hall baby turns 40
Posted - January 19, 2023

Milestones of IVF: 2002 – Bourn Hall introduces the first egg sharing programme
Posted - December 28, 2022

Milestones in IVF: 1995 – the birth of Bourn Hall’s first baby conceived through ICSI
Posted - December 15, 2022

Milestones in IVF: 1990 – the first Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act was passed
Posted - December 13, 2022

Milestones in IVF: 1985 – the first baby born from a frozen blastocyst
Posted - December 7, 2022

Milestones in IVF: 1978 – the birth of the world’s first IVF baby
Posted - December 2, 2022

Milestones in IVF: 1972 – celebrating 50 years of the British Fertility Society
Posted - November 29, 2022

Milestones in IVF: 1968 – the first human fertilization outside the body
Posted - November 25, 2022

How IVF has changed our lives
Posted - November 2, 2022

Happy birthday Louise Brown
Posted - July 25, 2022

Jean Purdy, IVF pioneer and co-founder of Bourn Hall
Posted - March 25, 2022

First Christmas for Bourn Hall grandchild
Posted - December 17, 2021

Five decades at Bourn Hall – friendship and family
Posted - March 15, 2021

Early IVF baby now campaigner for fertility education
Posted - January 13, 2021

‘Precious baby’ helped to secure the future of fertility treatment through the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990
Posted - December 1, 2020

Nobel Prize Medal awarded to IVF pioneer to be auctioned at Christie’s
Posted - June 18, 2020

The ‘start-up’ story of financing the world’s first IVF clinic
Posted - March 23, 2020

On International Women’s Day we remember Lesley Brown
Posted - March 5, 2020

Home of Patrick Steptoe, ‘Father of IVF’, gets a Blue Plaque
Posted - May 4, 2019

Jamie Facer-Childs: the world’s first twin ‘frostie’
Posted - March 21, 2019

Happy 40th Birthday Alastair MacDonald, the world’s first IVF boy
Posted - January 14, 2019

When I was your age something world-changing happened that shaped my life
Posted - August 24, 2018

Louise Brown celebrates her 40th birthday at Bourn Hall
Posted - July 25, 2018

The story of IVF: 6 million babies later celebrated at Science Museum
Posted - July 22, 2018

Jean Purdy IVF pioneer celebrated with memorial service
Posted - July 21, 2018

Louise Brown celebrates the life of Jean Purdy with her living legacy
Posted - July 20, 2018

IVF is 40 in 2018 – the treatment continues to improve
Posted - July 20, 2018

IVF is 40: First blastocyst created
Posted - July 1, 2018

Dr Kay Elder – ‘A life in Glass’
Posted - June 6, 2018

Icelandic couple’s emotional journey 30 years after IVF with frozen embryos
Posted - February 16, 2018

Robert Edwards, co-father of IVF, interviewed by Liz O’Donnell, an early Bourn Hall patient
Posted - May 26, 2017

Why me? Infertility and the stubborn Yorkshireman
Posted - May 23, 2017

First frozen embryo baby home from the cold
Posted - March 7, 2017

Baby, look at you now!
Posted - December 9, 2016

Photographer of world’s first IVF egg retires
Posted - September 23, 2016

Pioneering IVF patient returns to Bourn Hall
Posted - May 11, 2016

Louise Brown: “My life as the world’s first test-tube baby” – autobiography launched at Bourn Hall
Posted - July 23, 2015

Louise Brown is 36, Bourn Hall remembers IVF pioneers
Posted - July 25, 2014

Alastair MacDonald: The world’s first IVF boy celebrates 35th birthday
Posted - January 14, 2014

The Bourn Hall Legacy – 35 years of IVF
Posted - July 25, 2013

Tributes to Professor Sir Robert Edwards
Posted - April 12, 2013

Sad Loss Of Lesley Brown – First IVF Mother
Posted - June 20, 2012