Editing Assisted reproductive technology (section)

==Historical facts==
25 July 1978, [[Louise Brown]] was born; this was the first successful birth of a child after [[IVF]] treatment. The procedure took place at Dr Kershaw's Cottage Hospital (now Dr Kershaw's Hospice) in Royton, Oldham, England. [[Patrick Steptoe]] (gynaecologist) and [[Robert Edwards (physiologist)]] worked together to develop the IVF technique.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/25/newsid_2499000/2499411.stm|title=1978: First 'test tube baby' born|date=July 25, 1978|via=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> Steptoe described a new method of egg extraction and Edwards were carrying out a way to fertilise eggs in the lab. Robert G. Edwards was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 2010, but not Steptoe because the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2010/summary/ |title = The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010}}</ref>

The first successful birth by ICSI ([[intracytoplasmic sperm injection]]) took place on 14 January 1992. The technique was developed by [[Gianpiero D. Palermo]] at the [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]], in the Center for Reproductive Medicine in Brussels. Actually, the discovery was made by a mistake when a spermatozoid was put into the cytoplasm.<ref>{{cite journal| pmid=1351601 | volume=340 | issue=8810 | title=Pregnancies after intracytoplasmic injection of single spermatozoon into an oocyte | year=1992 | last1=Palermo |first1=G |last2=Joris |first2=H |last3=Devroey |first3=P |last4=Van Steirteghem |first4=AC | journal=Lancet | pages=17–8 | doi=10.1016/0140-6736(92)92425-f| s2cid=2916063 }}</ref>