Nobel Prize for British IVF pioneer

Colleagues have reacted with delight to the news that British test tube baby pioneer Professor Robert Edwards has been given the Nobel Prize for medicine. Skip related content

Cambridge physiologist Prof Edwards, now 85, and Patrick Steptoe, a gynaecologic surgeon, developed IVF technology in which egg cells are fertilised outside the body and implanted in the womb. Dr Steptoe died in 1988.