More than 10,000 test tube babies have been born since the birth of Louise Brown and there are now four million IVF babies worldwide.

继露易丝.布朗之后，超过1万个试管婴儿相继出生，现在全球已经有4百万个IVF婴儿。

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In 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, is born.

1978年，人间第一名试管婴儿路易丝·布朗(Louise Joy Brown)诞生。

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Prof Edwards efforts in the 1950s, 60s and 70s led to the birth of the world's first "test tube baby", Louise Brown, in July 1978.

上世纪五十年代、六十年代、七十年代，爱德华兹教授一直在努力着，终于在1978年的七月迎来了世界第一例“试管婴儿”路易丝·布朗的诞生。

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The first so-called test-tube baby, Louise Brown, whom he helped bring into the world, was born in 1978.

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Working in close collaboration with gynecologist Patrick Steptoe, who died in 1988, Dr. Edwards overcame entrenched political and religious hostility, as well as the disapproval of many other scientists at the time, to pioneer the basic techniques of human embryology that led to the birth of the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, in 1978.

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While the bodies on the track of which Mr Livingstone warns darkly will probably not materialise, Londoners will forever blame the shortcomings of the Tube on Mr Byers and Mr Brown and on their boss, Tony Blair, who privately wishes the whole mad scheme could be quietly buried.

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