John Edmond Buster (born July 18, 1941) working at the
University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, directed the research team that performed history's first
embryo transfer from one woman to another resulting in a
live birth. It was performed at the
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, reported in July 1983, and led to the announcement of the first human birth February 3, 1984. In the procedure, an
embryo that was just beginning to develop was transferred from the woman in whom it had been conceived by
artificial insemination to another woman who gave birth to the infant 38 weeks later. The sperm used in the artificial insemination came from the husband of the woman who bore the baby.