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By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide to 20th Century History since 1997

World's First Test-Tube Baby

Tuesday July 25, 2006
On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world's first successful "test-tube" baby was born in Great Britain. Though the technology that made her conception possible was heralded as a triumph in medicine and science, it also caused many to consider the possibilities of future ill-use.

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