Category: History of IVF

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
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