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Sep 2018
27m 13s

The Changing Face of Procreation: Assist...

Bbc World Service
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How humans make babies could be about to change, thanks to advances in IVF and reproductive technology. Krupa Padhy meets the new kinds of families that could become the norm, and explores how reproductive technology may soon alter the way all of us make babies.

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