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Published online 25 July 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030721-13

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Meeting celebrates IVF birthday

25 years since first test-tube baby, hurdles and arguments remain.

Scientists are meeting in London today - the twenty-fifth birthday of Louise Brown, the world's first 'test-tube' baby - to discuss how far in vitro fertilization (IVF) has come and how far it has to go. Many technical and ethical hurdles remain, they say.

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