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Want to freeze-store your ovarian tissue? Grow eggs in your arm? Or use IVF surrogacy to have a baby? All of the above are either available or on the horizon. Alison Motluk talks to Roger Gosden, the man whose work on sheep made possible last year’s headline-grabbing “menopause reversal” on a 29-year-old dancer. Gosden, based at McGill University in Montreal, is currently hard at work figuring out how to culture human eggs…

How is having babies likely to change over the next generation?

I’d like to think it would be more predictable. It’s very much a lottery now. About 1 in 6 pregnancies in a young…

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