LIFE SCIENCE

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: -Louise Joy Brown (born 25 July 1978) is an English woman who was the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation experiment (IVF). Her birth, following a procedure pioneered in Britain, has been lauded among “the most remarkable medical breakthroughs of the 20th Century".

Detailed explanation-3: -She was not just India’s first but also the world’s second IVF baby. Dr Subhash Mukherjee’s path-breaking invention meant that Kanupriya was born just 67 days after the first of her kind in the UK.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was not until 25 July 1978 with the work of two British medical researchers, Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards, that the revised definition of test-tube baby became a reality. With their work, the first child born from a zygote fertilized outside of a human body was created.