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Robert Edwards (1925-2013)
A memorial service for Bob Edwards was held last weekend at Bourn Hall, near Cambridge, England. That is the Jacobean mansion house where he founded the world’s first in vitro clinic for fertility treatment (IVF) with Patrick Steptoe in 1980. … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, Cambridge, eggs, embryology, fertility, genetics, IVF, Margaret Thatcher, medicine, Nobel Prize, ovary, Robert_Edwards, science, stem-cells
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