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🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Can AI improve the success rates of women undergoing fertility treatment? Anita Rani discusses the impact of AI on IVF with Dr Cristina Hickman, an embryologist, co-founder of Avenues, and Chair of the Global AI Fertility Society, and Dr Ali Abbara, a Clinician Scientist at Imperial College London, and Consultant in Reproductive Endocrinology at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
The second reading is due today of a private members bill that seeks to ban first-cousin marriage. It’s particularly prevalent among Pakistani and Muslim communities. But what would this mean for women? And how would genetic testing to enforce the ban work? Anita Rani speaks to CEO of Karma Nirvana Natasha Rattu and Emeritus Professor of Health Research at Bradford University, Neil Small.
The award winning documentary Sugarcane follows an investigation into the Canadian Indian residential school system, and the attempts of survivors and their descendants to try to understand what happened in them. Emily Kassie is the film's producer and co-director and joins Anita on Woman's Hour.
Mark Zuckerberg says companies need to embrace more “masculine energy”. The Meta boss told a podcast that instead of trying to get away from it, corporate culture should celebrate the positive side of things like “aggression”. But what even is ‘masculine energy’? And do we really need more of it? Anita talks to Josh Smith, contributing editor of Glamour magazine and Becky Hewitt, Chief Exec of culture change company Kin&Co.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Laura Northedge
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0:37.2 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
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0:45.2 | Can AI help people get pregnant? |
0:47.9 | Today we'll be talking about whether and how AI can improve IVF success rates. |
0:53.6 | Also, Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire founder of Facebook, said this. |
0:58.4 | Masculine energy, I think, is good. |
1:00.8 | And obviously, you know, society has plenty of that. |
1:03.5 | But I think corporate culture was really, like, trying to get away from it. |
1:08.4 | And I do think that there's just something, it's like, I don't know, |
1:12.6 | all these forms of energy are good. And I think having a culture that like celebrates the |
1:18.8 | aggression a bit more has its own merits that are really positive. So this morning we're |
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