“In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a widely used assisted reproductive technology in the world, but is IVF a baby grown in a test tube? In fact, the scientific name of IVF is “In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)”, which is a process that involves removing several eggs from the woman’s ovaries, combining them with the man’s sperm in a laboratory, forming an embryo and transferring it to the woman’s uterus, where it will implant, gestate and grow in the mother’s The embryos are then transferred to the woman’s uterus, where they will be laid in the mother’s womb, gestate, and grow until they are born. Therefore, IVF is not a real baby grown in a test tube. Thus, IVF is simply called “test tube baby” because the test tube in the laboratory takes the place of the fallopian tube (note: the natural process of pregnancy is that the sperm and the egg meet in the fallopian tube to fertilize the egg and then return to the uterus to continue the pregnancy). IVF The study of IVF has a long history, as scientists began experimenting with animals in the 1940s, and in 1947 the British journal Nature reported an experiment in which rabbit eggs were retrieved and transferred to other rabbits to give birth to young rabbits on their own. He also transplanted the fertilized eggs into the fallopian tubes of other rabbits and gave birth to normal young rabbits. The successful completion of in vitro fertilization experiments in rabbits made Zhang Mingjue a pioneer in in vitro fertilization research and laid a good foundation for later research on in vitro fertilization and in vitro fertilization in humans. The world’s first test-tube baby, Louis Brow, was born on July 25, 1978, in the United Kingdom, and the earliest success rate of IVF was only 2.94%. 1985 saw the birth of the first test-tube baby in Taiwan; 1986 saw the birth of a case in Hong Kong; and the first test-tube baby on the mainland was born on March 10, 1998, at Peking University Hospital. Professor Robet G. Edwards, the creator of the world’s first IVF, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010. The field of assisted reproductive technology and reproductive medicine is undergoing tremendous progress and change, with IVF success rates reaching 40% – 50% and more and more people around the world choosing IVF as a way to help them conceive. Originally used to treat infertility caused by blocked fallopian tubes, IVF has now been found to be helpful for infertility caused by endometriosis, abnormal sperm (abnormal number or morphology), and unexplained sexual factors. If you are confused about infertility, it is recommended to go to a regular hospital for systematic and persistent treatment, and use advanced fertility techniques to make your dreams come true.