Breakthrough Babies: An IVF pioneer's tale of creating life against all odds

Simon Fishel grew up in Liverpool in a non-academic household. He struggled to find a career, but eventually joined Robert Edwards and worked with him during his early IVF pioneering work, becoming part of the team in the world’s first IVF clinic, with all the trials and tribulations that involved at the time, including a writ for murder!

As the science developed over the decades so did Fishel's career, as he sought to do more for patients, and to teach the new technologies to doctors all o...