Technology Quarterly | The most personal technology
In vitro fertilisation is struggling to keep up with demand
Developing the technology to change that is proving a difficult task
With the possible exception of Adam and Eve, all human beings born before 1978 were conceived inside a woman’s body. Today the world contains at least 12m people who started off in laboratory glassware. On average, four more are born every three minutes. That is a worldwide rate of roughly one newborn in 175.
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