Romance really is dead.<\/p>\n
Humans will stop having sex to make babies within 30 years, a scientist predicts.<\/p>\n
Instead of conceiving the natural way, parents will instead head to a lab for the decidedly un-sexy process of hand-picking embryos created with their DNA, says Professor Hank Greely, director of Stanford Law School\u2019s Center for Law and the Biosciences, according to an Atlantic report.<\/p>\n
But at least one thing won\u2019t change: One or both partners may be left unsatisfied by the experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think one of the hardest things about this will be all the divorces that come about when she wants embryo No. 15 and he wants embryo No. 64,\u201d Greely said in a discussion at Aspen Ideas Festival last week, per a Quartz report.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you weigh a slightly higher chance of diabetes with slightly lower risk of schizophrenia against better musical ability and a much lower risk of colon cancer? Good luck.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scientists can already screen embryos for gender and some genetic diseases through a process called \u201cpreimplantation genetic diagnosis,\u201d but Greely says it will become increasingly the norm as the technology becomes cheaper and more advanced.<\/p>\n
Still, he claims that it won\u2019t give rise some dystopic \u201cGattaca\u201d scenario because parents will be limited by their own crummy genetic material.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not designer babies or super babies,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is selecting embryos. You take two people. All you can get out of a baby is what those two people have.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Romance really is dead. Humans will stop having sex to make babies within 30 years, a scientist predicts. Instead of conceiving the natural way, parents will instead head to a lab for the decidedly un-sexy process of hand-picking embryos created with their DNA, says Professor Hank Greely, director of Stanford Law School\u2019s Center for Law …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[391],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n