In the book "A Happy World" by Aldous Huxley, people stop having babies in the traditional way. In this world of science fiction, babies are the product of test tubes, pietri dishes and the like.
With the news that 70-year-old grandmothers give birth to twins, it seems that Huxley's happy world begins to go from being fiction to reality.
In a new report published in the journal Nature in their July issue, scientists predict that in 30 years artificial wombs where babies will be floating with umbilical cords attached to a machine will be common, and experiments with human embryos will be ethically accepted. Infertility will not exist, laboratories will have the capacity to manufacture ovules and sperm from stem cells and there will be "genetic cassettes" that will be inserted into the embryonic phases to correct diseases.
In vitro fertilization (IVF) will be available to everyone and any grandmother will be able to have children. Scientists agree that designer babies will not be possible. Although science has all these advances, experts say, people will continue to prefer to make babies in the traditional way because it is cheaper and fun.
Will we embrace all these scientific advances? Or will we follow the opinions of Mother Nature? These are some of the questions we will answer in 30 years ...
Via | ParentDish
