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SUMMARY: A history of events leading to the birth of Louise Brown - Profes
 sor Martin Johnson and Dr Kay Elder
DTSTART:20141211T173000Z
DTEND:20141211T190000Z
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CONTACT:Rhiannon
DESCRIPTION:Martin Johnson (Cambridge University) and Kay Elder (Bourn Hal
 l Clinic)\n\nBetween 1969 and 1978\, Robert Edwards\, Patrick Steptoe and 
 Jean Purdy worked in Oldham and Cambridge to try to translate their succes
 sful IVF into a live birth. This was eventually achieved in July 1978 and 
 January 1979 with the birth of the world's first two so-called 'test tube 
 babies'. Recent access to the archive of the late Robert Edwards has enabl
 ed a clear history of the approaches used in solving the many problems enc
 ountered to be determined. This lecture will describe the clinical\, scien
 tific and ethical problems that the three researchers encountered over thi
 s nine and a half year period\, and how they went about resolving them.   
   
LOCATION:Yusuf Hamied Lecture Theatre\, Christ's College
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