Test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards wins Nobel medicine prize
Dr. Robert Edwards from Britain won the Nobel Prize for medicine for the invention of in-vitro fertilization with witch an egg cell is taken, fertilized and, placed in side the womb. The technology was developed to help infertile woman have children. Dr. Edward developed the technology with his friend Dr. Patrick Steptoe who died in 1988. The chance of the IVF cycle working is the same as naturally conceiving. Today over 4,000,000 children have been born bring joy to families who had thought the had no chance of conception.
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