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Robert Edwards, a Nobel prizewinner from Britain whose pioneering in vitro fertilization research led to the first test tube baby and has since brought millions of people into the world, died Wednesday at age 87....

Babies born after in vitro fertilization have an increased risk of birth defects, the latest study shows.

Left infertile after being abducted and raped as an 8-year-old back in 1990, Jennifer Schuett despaired of ever having a normal life – and a baby of her own. Schuett’s fallopian tubes had become blocked as a result of an infection she caught from her rapist, and her only hope was very expensive in-vitro fertilization.

In the next two weeks, Shannon and Paul Morell will meet their baby boy for the first time after the woman who was wrongly implanted with their frozen embryo gives birth. "This has been a terrible thing that has happened to two good families, but we’re doing the best we can for the health of this baby," Shannon Morell said.