The Future of Babies


	The Future of Babies

Silkweaver

8-2-2008 1:34 PM

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fertility, babies, artificial womb, genetics

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Since embryos will be grown in labs, mutations to embryos could be corrected and improvements could be engineered. Yet there will be no "designer babies " because no single gene is that predictive of a "perfect" child.

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Artificial wombs and experiments on human embryos grown in the lab will be commonplace and no big deal ethically in 30 years, several scientists predict.
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They envision a scenario just like test-tube babies, which shocked us 30 years ago but now are fairly routine and acceptable to most people.
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That is one of many predictions about the future of assisted reproduction and other baby-related <A href="http://www.livescience.com/health/top10-bizarre-contraceptives.html" linkindex="20" set="yes">medical advances</A>  in a special news report, "Making Babies: The Next 30 Years," in the July 16 issue of the journal <EM>Nature</EM>. 
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</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/health/080716-baby-techs.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Labs will be able to generate sperm and eggs for anybody.
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