IVF Is a Normal Part of Reproduction

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IVF was developed not far away from where i'm in Manchester. It's a perfectly accepted normal part of reproduction at some you know some people for all sorts of reasons go down that route. In the UK the NHS will support this but you only get say three cycle and after that you have to start paying. There is something about it's my DNA it's i have my DNA there's something i don't know what it is instinctively or intuitively or no michael says.

Shermer and Cobb discuss: objections to genetic engineering (political, religious, cultural) • selective breeding • recombinant DNA • the ethics of genetics • patenting life • gene therapy • gene editing • CRISPR • literature and films on the dangers of genetic engineering • bioweapons • 3 Laws of Behavior Genetics and what people fear about it.

Matthew Cobb is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester. He is the author of six books: The Idea of the Brain: A History; Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code; Generation; The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis; Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris in 1944; and Smell: A Very Short Introduction. He lives in England.