Photos: 35 years of 'test tube' babies
The world's first "test tube" baby, Louise Brown, was born July 25, 1978. She is now 35 years old. Take a look back at the news on in vitro fertilization.
35 years of 'test tube' babies
Louise Joy Brown, the world's first "test tube" fertilization baby, is shown shortly after her birth at Oldham General Hospital in Britain on July 25, 1978. The five-pound 12-ounce baby girl was delivered by Caesarian section. (AP Photo)
35 years of 'test tube' babies
Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby in this photo dated July 25, 1978, soon after her birth at Oldham General Hospital in Manchester, England, following pioneered work by the hospital's gynecologist, Patrick Steptoe and Cambridge physiologist Robert Edwards. Test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards of Britain has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine it is announced Monday Oct. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/file)
35 years of 'test tube' babies
Louise Brown, front center, with Alastair Macdonald front fourth left, the first in vitro fertilized female and male babies born, attend the 25th anniversary reunion at the Bourn Hall Clinic near Cambridge, England Saturday July 26, 2003. Louise Brown was the first born 25 years ago and some 1,000 IVF children gathered to celebrate the anniversary. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
35 years of 'test tube' babies
Elizabeth Jordan Carr, 21, left, the first test tube baby born in the United States, and a senior at Simmons College, right, meets her birth delivery doctor Fredrick Wirth of King of Prussia, Pa., Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2003, during a reunion in Boston. Dr. Wirth delivered Carr 21 years ago in Norfolk, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Malakie)
35 years of 'test tube' babies
Dr. Robert Edwards, left, is all smiles as he sits with gynecologist, Patrick Steptoe, his partner in research for 12 years in "test tube" childbirth, July 26, 1978 in Manchester, England. They announced details of the birth to Bristol housewife, Mrs. Lesley Brown, of a baby girl born in an Oldham Hospital. (AP Photo/Bob Dear)
35 years of 'test tube' babies
Dr. Robert Edwards, left, is all smiles as he sits with gynecologist, Patrick Steptoe, his partner in research for 12 years in "test tube" childbirth, July 26, 1978 in Manchester, England. They announced details of the birth to Bristol housewife, Mrs. Lesley Brown, of a baby girl born in an Oldham Hospital. (AP Photo/Bob Dear)
35 years of 'test tube' babies
British Professor Robert Edwards, in this file photo dated Thursday, May. 19, 2005, whose pioneering work led to the birth of the world's first 'test tube baby', seen in London, England. Test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards of Britain has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine it is announced Monday Oct. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
35 years of 'test tube' babies
Headlines from three of Britain's national daily newspapers are shown, July 26, 1978, announcing the birth of the first test tube baby. The baby, a girl, weighing 5 lbs. 12 ozs., was born to Mrs. Lesley Brown at Oldham General Hospital in northern England. (AP Photo)
35 years of 'test tube' babies
Dr. Patrick Steptoe, left, from Oldham General Hospital, and Dr. Robert G. Edwards of the Physiological Laboratories at Cambridge University, are shown during a news conference on BBC television in London, Feb. 14, 1969. They have taken the first steps toward creating human life in a test tube by fertilizing human eggs in the laboratory. (AP Photo)
35 years of 'test tube' babies
Ira Lowery, a London secretary, reads the news on the front page of this morning's London Daily Mail, July 26, 1978, announcing the birth of the world's first test tube baby, born in northern England. (AP Photo)