GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The birth of the world’s first ‘test-tube baby’, Louise Brown, on 25 July 1978 in Oldham, northwest England has come to represent the origin story of technologically assisted human reproduction.

Detailed explanation-2: -William Pancoast, a physician from Philadelphia, performed the first artificial insemination that led to a successful birth in 1884, marking the birth of the first test-tube baby.

Detailed explanation-3: -The name of the first Indian test tube baby is Kanupriya Agarwal who was born on October 3, 1978. Late Dr Subhash Mukherjee was the first-ever person in India and the second in the world to create a baby through the IVF procedure.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first test-tube twins were born in Melbourne, Australia, on June 6, 1981 to a 31-year-old woman, Radmila Mays. These twins, a boy, Stephen, and a girl, Amanda, were the seventh and the eight test tube babies born in the world.