NEET BIOLOGY

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 was born at Oldham General Hospital, Lancashire, by planned Caesarean section performed by registrar John Webster. She weighed 5 pounds, 12 ounces (2.608 kg) at birth.

Detailed explanation-3: -It has been forty-two years since the first test tube baby in the world, Louise Brown, was born on July 25, 1978, in a Manchester hospital by in vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure. Delivered a few minutes before the midnight through Caesarean section, Louise Brown weighed 2.6 kilograms on birth.

Detailed explanation-4: -On 25 July 1978, the world’s first human test-tube baby Louise Joy Brown was born at Oldham General Hospital in England. Know about the background of the conception of the first test-tube baby along with a brief introduction of IVF and Surrogation Bill for the IAS Exam.

Detailed explanation-5: -On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first baby to be conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF) is born at Oldham and District General Hospital in Manchester, England, to parents Lesley and Peter Brown.