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Scientists are developing artificial wombs, sperm and eggs - but will this lead to reproduction in a dish? David Adam looks for the first synthetic human
Readers of a squeamish disposition, look away now. The following article has vivid descriptions of stomach-churning experiments, freakish deformity and sex. Lots of sex, often done very badly. You really might be better off trying Sudoku.
"Human babies grown in a laboratory," a front-page story in a British newspaper screamed earlier this month. The story, of course, was wrong. It was unfertilised human egg cells that had been produced - but could the overexcited headline be a sign of things to come?
In their efforts to tackle inherited diseases and help infertile couples, scientists across the world are developing techniques and technology that ape the most basic - and morally complicated - of biological functions: human reproduction. Taken together, the work poses some troubling questions.
In the most recent research, the scientists claim to have grown eggs using stem cells scraped from anonymous human tissue. Others are trying to do the same with sperm...
Readers of a squeamish disposition, look away now. The following article has vivid descriptions of stomach-churning experiments, freakish deformity and sex. Lots of sex, often done very badly. You really might be better off trying Sudoku.
"Human babies grown in a laboratory," a front-page story in a British newspaper screamed earlier this month. The story, of course, was wrong. It was unfertilised human egg cells that had been produced - but could the overexcited headline be a sign of things to come?
In their efforts to tackle inherited diseases and help infertile couples, scientists across the world are developing techniques and technology that ape the most basic - and morally complicated - of biological functions: human reproduction. Taken together, the work poses some troubling questions.
In the most recent research, the scientists claim to have grown eggs using stem cells scraped from anonymous human tissue. Others are trying to do the same with sperm...