Dr Steptoe later pioneered in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and the world’s first ... The results matched them with Roy Hollihead, a scientist who ran a pathology laboratory one floor above ...
A retired NHS scientist has sensationally revealed that IVF pioneer Patrick Steptoe, whose work led to the world's first test tube baby, used sperm from 'lots' of medical staff without keeping ...
A new study has revealed a potential reason why some pregnancies achieved through assisted reproductive technology (ART) may result in birth defects in comparison to naturally conceived pregnancies.
His struggle to develop IVF with two other pioneering British scientists – nurse Jean Purdy and physiologist Sir Robert Edwards – was recently dramatised in a new film Joy, starring Bill Nighy ...
Anyone who has undergone IVF will tell you that the process can ... bringing previously fantastical science to a field that has been ignored for too long. With fertility rates dropping and more ...
Anyone who has undergone in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) will tell you that the process can be daunting. It involves weeks of mood-altering, bloat-inducing hormone injections to retrieve eggs so they ...