The New York Times on Tuesday profiled surgeon Howard Jones, who, together with his wife, Georgeanna Seegar Jones, collaborated on the first U.S. in vitro fertilization procedure that led to the birth of an infant. Now 99 years old, Jones first began reproductive science work at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, where he performed sex change operations and worked with British scientist Robert Edwards to produce the first fertilized human oocyte in 1965. Jones opened an IVF clinic in 1979...

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