Trying with Emma Barnett

Trying with Emma Barnett

Infertility & IVF

The painful birth of IVF commands a rethink

Bob Edwards, IVF's pioneer, did not want the medicine he created to only be for those with money.

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Emma Barnett
Sep 29, 2025
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Louise Brown, the world’s first IVF baby, and myself, at the celebrations for Bob Edwards - the man to whom we both owe so much

Sometimes you get to go right back to the beginning and really appreciate how something was and not how it seems now.

Last week I was invited to the University of Cambridge to mark the centenary of the birth of the late Robert Ed…

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