"When the first human egg was fertilized in a lab in 1944, the news spread like wildfire; the press quickly adopted the term "test tube baby." But for decades after the early scientific advance there was little real progress; ...

"When David Vetter died at the age of 12, he was already world famous: the boy in the plastic bubble. Mythologized as the plucky, handsome child who had defied the odds, his life story is in fact even more dramatic. It ...