A human embryo born in a fostering liquid is shown under a microscope to the public in Northeast China's Liaoning Province, April 15,2004. It's the first time in China that an embryo is successfully nurtured outside a mother's body.

Doctor Wang Tong of the province's Research Institute of Family Planning Science invented the new method, which can enable a mother diagnosed with certain illness to produce a baby with her egg outside her body and save her from risks. So far, Wang and his team have nurtured 28 such embryos.

(Newsphoto April 16, 2004)