In vitro fertilisation is a medical procedure in which an egg is removed from the woman’s ovaries and fertilised with sperm in a laboratory. The fertilised egg, now called an embryo, is returned to the woman’s womb to develop.
This procedure was first successfully carried out in 1978 by Dr Steptoe and Edwards of Oldham General Hospital in the United Kingdom after over two decades of research, which led to the birth of Louise Brown, the…
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