In less than 50 years, the IVF process has gone from pioneering to commonplace Nevodka/Alamy
ON 25 July 1978, Louise Joy Brown was born at Oldham General Hospital in the UK. The first child to be born following IVF, she was called a miracle baby by some, a test-tube baby by others, and a representation of the “degeneration of Western morals” by at least one.
A hundred years earlier, Walther Flemming, a German scientist, coined the term chromatin, meaning coloured substance, while he was looking at stained human cells dividing under…
