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MAY 2019. DISCOVER 3

MAY 2019

VOL. 40, NO. 4

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Explore how new

technologies — and new

ethical concerns — may

reshape the way our

species reproduces.

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Repairing

the Future

Researchers edge

closer to using gene

editing technology

to put an end to

inherited diseases.

BY ANNA GROVES

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Love,

Genetically

Iconic Harvard

geneticist George

Church wants us to

choose our lovers

using genetics.

BY ERIC BETZ

38

Sex in the

Cosmic City

Colonizing space

means reproducing

there. We still don’t

know if that’s possible.

BY AMBER JORGENSON

SPECIAL SECTION

Let me tell you about the birds

and the bees and the babies in

space: Off-planet procreation

will present us with a whole host

of new biological and ethical

questions.

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FUTURE

FERTILITY

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