Reproduction Without Sex: What Does Technology Have to Offer?

Calendar
When:
March 8, 2016 @ 1:15 pm – 1:55 pm
2016-03-08T13:15:00+00:00
2016-03-08T13:55:00+00:00
Where:
Darwin Lecture Thearte, Darwin Building
Malet Pl
London WC1E
UK
Cost:
Free
Contact:
University College London
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Medicine & Health Science Sex & Gender Technology

The first IVF baby was born in 1978. Since then, technology has advanced so that IVF success rates are higher than natural conception, and it is now possible to check the chromosomes of the embryonic genome using next generation sequencing. Is genome editing the next logical step?