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CARE firsts
Members of the CARE team have been involved in the following unique list of national and international firsts, demonstrating the team's commitment to driving forward the quality and success of fertility treatments.
- 1978 World's first IVF baby
- 1981 First male factor patients treated
- 1982 Britain's first IVF twins
- 1982 World's first baby delivered after intrauterine sperm/egg transfer
- 1984 Britain's first IVF triplets
- 1984 World's first baby from blastocyst transfer
- 1987 World's first babies, twins, born after frozen embryo donated eggs
- 1988 World's first baby born after home monitoring of fertility treatment
- 1989 Britain's first babies, twins, born after host surrogacy
- 1990 World's first baby born after micro-injection
- 1992 Britain's first SUZI treatment baby
- 1992 Britain's first "sugar drop" frozen embryo baby
- 1994 World's first CISS baby
- 1994 Britain's first triplets born after host surrogacy
- 1996 World's first testicular spermatid baby
- 1996 Britain's first pregnancy using maternal host grandmother
- 1997 World's first pre-cancer treatment recovery of testicular material from pre-pubescent boy
- 1999 World's first IVF baby for cystic fibrosis patient
- 1999 World's first baby for man using Multiple Ejaculate Resuspension Centrifugation
- 2001 UK's first licence awarded for PGD and HLA tissue typing
- 2002 Embryo chromosome (aneuploidy) screening licence awarded
- 2004 First NHS-funded treatment for PGD and HLA tissue typing
- 2007 Europe's first baby born following embryo screening using Comparative Genomic Hybridisation (CGH)
- 2008 Array CGH, World's first pregnancy
- 2009 Birth of Worlds First baby following array CGH screening
- 2010 UK's first baby born through PGD for HLA tissue matching
