A well-connected startup company is trying to rewrite the rules of reproduction.
How Silicon Valley hatched a plan to turn blood into lab-made human eggs
A well-connected startup company is trying to rewrite the rules of reproduction as we know them. If they succeed, they could cancel the age limits on female fertility, supercharge the path to designer children, and even open the door for same-sex reproduction.
More stories like this
Are we designing inequality into our genes?
Funders of a deep-pocketed new "rejuvenation" startup are said to include Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner.
The DNA test claims to let prospective parents weed out IVF embryos with a high risk of disease or low intelligence. …
Scientists are trying to manufacture eggs and sperm in the laboratory. Will it end reproduction as we know it?
A startup called Darwin Life says it will use a controversial fertility technique to help forty-somethings get pregnant for $100,000.
Researchers are getting close to manufacturing viable human embryos from stem cells. They say there needs to be a law against turning them into people.
Will you be among the first to pick your kids’ IQ? As machine learning unlocks predictions from DNA databases, scientists say parents could have choices never before possible.
The confluence of investor money, ticking biological clocks, and covid-19 is creating a schism in the fertility industry.
News that a woman has given birth via an ovary frozen when she was nine years old is just one example of how technology is altering the limits of fertility.
Want to support more mission-driven journalism like this?
For $50 per year, you’ll get unlimited access to our journalism and our Webby-nominated newsletter on artificial intelligence, The Algorithm.