World Embryologist Day
July 25 · Level 2 · #1894 of 2238
A day to thank the specialists who handle the very first stages of human life in fertility laboratories. It falls on 25 July, the birthday of Louise Brown, the first baby born through in vitro fertilisation.
How it is celebrated: clinics and professional societies post thank-you messages, give a peek into their lab work and host talks, while families who welcomed children after IVF send warm words to the teams who helped them.
Louise Brown was born on 25 July 1978 in Oldham, England. Robert Edwards, one of the pioneers of the method, received the Nobel Prize in 2010 for developing it.