Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes to British Scientist

A British scientist has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine for his work in developing in-vitro fertilization.

The prize committee in Sweden said Robert Edwards has helped millions of couples dealing with infertility, calling his work a milestone in modern medicine.

Edwards, now 85 years old, developed the procedure that allows egg cells to be fertilized outside the body and then implanted in the womb.

He began his work in the 1950s, and perfected the technique with colleague Patrick Steptoe, who died in 1988.

The Nobel committee said as many as 4 million babies have been born through the procedure since the first so-called "test-tube baby" was born in 1978.