They’re wrestling with complex ethical questions about how new genetic systems will be applied to analyze or even alter embryos
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Some of those technologies are being developed at the Carlos Simon Foundation in Valencia, Spain.
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But foundation director Carlos Simon is hopeful, noting that the inventors of IVF had to perform over 160 cycles before Louise Brown was born (between 1969 and 1978, that team performed 457 cycles
The tests are especially beneficial for women over the age of 38, says Alan Penzias, a reproductive endocrinologist at Boston IVF
But PGT-A won’t give you a perfect readout of a future baby’s genetics, says Sonia Gayete-Lafuente, a reproductive endocrinologist at the Center for Human Reproduction in New York City
At least 19 children have been born following the automated IVF
Summary
MIT Technology Review ’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. Forty-eight years ago this July, Louise Joy Brown became the world’s first person born with the help of in vitro fertilization. But it’s still not perfect. Reproduction is complex, and there’s a lot that embryologists and gynecologists still don’t know and can’t control. Scientists are working on all those questions and more.