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  Test-tube baby pioneer dies aged 87

  World | April 11, 2013 9:19 IST

  London, April 11: British scientist Robert Edwards, known as "father" of world's first test-tube baby breathed his last Wednesday, the Cambridge University announced. The 87-year-old died following prolonged illness.Edwards, who was awarded Nobel prize for

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  Test-tube Baby Pioneer Edwards Wins Medicine Nobel

  World | October 04, 2010 17:28 IST

  Stockholm, Oct 4 (AP) Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine today for developing in-vitro fertilisation, a breakthrough that has helped millions of infertile couples worldwide have children.  Edwards, an 85-year-old