IVF pioneer earns Nobel

Robert Geoffrey Edwards has this year's prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing the technique of in vitro fertilization

 

"This is a technique that has brought the joy of parenthood to millions of couples and thoroughly deserves to be acknowledged as a major scientific discovery with a great impact on human lives," William Colledge, reproductive physiologist at the University of Cambridge in the UK, said

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