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Breaking-News >> TodayHistory On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, was born in the UK
47 years ago today, on July 25, 1978 (June 21, 1978 in the lunar calendar), the world's first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in the UK. British woman Louise Brown was the world's first test-tube baby (already a mother). At 23:47 on July 25, 1978, a baby girl weighing about 5 pounds and 12 ounces (about 2.6 kilograms) was born through Caesarean section at Oldham General Hospital on the outskirts of Manchester, England. This little girl with big blue eyes and curly blond hair attracted much attention from the world at that time-she was the world's first little Louise Brown born through "test-tube fertilization" technology. Twenty-six years later, the "civilianized""test-tube babies" have entered "thousands of households" like happy angels, bringing family happiness to many families. On September 4, 2004, Louise Brown, the world's first "test-tube baby", married the groom, fulfilling her first wish in life. In the 1960s and 1970s, Louise's mother Leslie was unable to have children due to fallopian tube disease, while her husband, Mr. John, was fine. After nine years of ineffective treatment, she and her husband decided to conduct the world's first "in vitro fertilization." In 1977, British scientists Edwards and Stippt extracted eggs from Lesley's body, placed them in an incubator with the semen of her husband John, and then re-implanted the fertilized eggs. In Lesley's uterus, Louise was born more than nine months later. Bob Edwards, a physiologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and Patrick Stipter, a gynecologist, invented the "in vitro fertilization" technology at the time, and their research once caused huge ethical controversy. Before Louise fell to the ground, people were worried that the birth of test-tube babies would destroy existing ethical relationships and threaten the most basic unit of society. Some even worried that the "test tube" would produce deformed monsters. Newspapers at that time exclaimed in alarm that humans were "playing God", once again "opening Pandora's box", and "violating ethics." Ten months after she was born, Louise began to learn to walk and was able to run around when she was 3 years old. She was smart and lively and changed the wait-and-see attitude and opposition of most British people towards "test-tube babies." As of today,"civilianized" test-tube babies have entered "thousands of households" like happy angels, and the controversy caused by "miracle babies" has disappeared. In 2008, the world's first test-tube baby will turn 30 years old, and Louise (center), who is already married and has children, will celebrate her 30th birthday. News raw data sources → https://www.abtool.cn/today_detail/1epg.html 17WorldNews[2025.09.14-00:39] 访问:70
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