AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

TEST TUBE BABIES

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM

When the first human egg was fertilized in a lab in 1944, the news spread like wildfire; the press quickly coined the term “test tube baby.” She was described in the press as the “Baby of the Century.” When Louise Brown, the world’s first successful test tube baby, was born in Great Britain on July 25, 1978, the event was heralded as the beginning of a technological revolution in human reproduction. It was also the culmination of a decade-long effort, involving scientists on both sides of the Atlantic, to help a woman conceive through in vitro fertilization, or IVF.

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