IVF: An Interview with Robin Marantz
Update: 2025-09-02
Description
Our producer Rigoberto Hernandez spoke with Robin Marantz, the author of Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution. She tells us about the history of IVF, from the first known artificial insemination by donor produced in Philadelphia in the 19th century to the scientific race in the 1960s and 1970s that resulted in the first so-called "test-tube baby."
Credits
Host: Alexis Pedrick
 Executive Producer: Mariel Carr
 Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez
 Associate Producer: Sarah Kaplan
 Audio Engineer: Samia Bouzid
 Music by Blue Dot Sessions
Resource List
Henig, Robin Marantz. Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2006.
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