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Imagine the other podcasting app. Imagine a future where parents make babies in the laboratory rather than the bedroom,

selecting specific embryos that have the best mix of their genetics to avoid debilitating

early childhood diseases or even

lowering the risk of later onset degenerative diseases. It sounds a little bit like science fiction,

but many of the technologies that will allow this to happen already exist. That's why our

guests this week predicts that future will be here in as little as 20 years.

Hank really is a professor of law at Stanford University, and if you thought a lawyer is sort of a weird choice for this show, I did too, but Hank is specializes in the ethical, legal, and social issues that arise from advances in biosciences,

particularly from genetics, neuroscience, and human stem cell research. I stumbled on Hank years ago

because he specializes in the intersection of neuroscience and the law, but he's the author of a new

book out now called The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction,

and I could not resist hearing his prognostications on this show.

What do you think about the idea of human reproduction moving out of the bedroom and into the laboratory?

You know, of many of the topics that we cover on this show, I feel like this one really

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