British IVF pioneer Professor Robert Edwards wins Nobel Prize for medicine.Cambridge physiologist Prof Edwards, now 85, and the late Patrick Steptoe, a gynaecologic surgeon, developed IVF technology in which egg cells are fertilised outside the body and implanted in the womb.

British IVF pioneer Professor Robert Edwards wins Nobel Prize for medicine.Cambridge physiologist Prof Edwards, now 85, and the late Patrick Steptoe, a gynaecologic surgeon, developed IVF technology in which egg cells are fertilised outside the body and implanted in the womb.