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Yearly cursed/nightmarish science articles thread. Will include articles from past years for completeness since old threads have been lost.
(04/25/2017) An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep — and humans could be next https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/25/15421734/artificial-womb-fetus-biobag-uterus-lamb-sheep-birth-premie-preterm-infant
(05/17/2017) Exposure to BPA potentially induces permanent reprogramming of painted turtles' brains https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170517143612.htm
(07/23/2017) A Spanish scientist is making robots that he thinks could end sex between humans https://www.businessinsider.com/spanish-scientist-making-sex-robots-end-human-sex-technology-trafficking-prostitution-ethics-2017-7
(03/08/2018) It’s Time to Make Human-Chimp Hybrids.
The humanzee is both scientifically possible and morally defensible.
http://nautil.us/issue/58/self/its-time-to-make-human_chimp-hybrids
The humanzee is both scientifically possible and morally defensible.
http://nautil.us/issue/58/self/its-time-to-make-human_chimp-hybrids
(03/16/2018) Artificial wombs intended to save premature babies — for now. Next step could be 'immaculate gestation'
https://nationalpost.com/health/artificial-wombs
https://nationalpost.com/health/artificial-wombs
(10/12/2018) Chinese scientists have created healthy baby mice with two mothers and no father, pushing back the barriers to same-sex reproduction in humans https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/no-father-necessary-as-mice-are-created-with-two-mothers-2vskf8w58
(11/01/2018) Male Breastfeeding Kit Could Let Dads Nurse Their Babies
(11/25/2018) On the eve of a major summit to discuss ethics of gene edited babies....looks like it already happened in China https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/11/25/138962/exclusive-chinese-scientists-are-creating-crispr-babies/
(11/30/2018) The First Clinical Trial of a Male Birth Control Gel Is Under Way https://gizmodo.com/the-first-male-birth-control-clinical-trial-is-under-wa-1830755333
(12/06/2018) This womb transplant breakthrough could open up pregnancy to all sexes https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/06/live-birth-dead-donor-definition-motherhood-transplants-pregnancy
(01/30/2019) The Death of a Dreamer https://quillette.com/2019/01/30/the-death-of-a-dreamer/
(02/08/2019) Transgender women 'should be entitled to womb transplants' so they can have a baby https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/transgender-women-should-entitled-womb-13972102
(03/26/2019) Male pill - why are we still waiting? https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47691567
(04/04/2019) The engineering of living organisms could soon start changing everything https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2019/04/04/the-engineering-of-living-organisms-could-soon-start-changing-everything
(04/10/2019) UC Berkeley researchers develop hormone-free birth control pills for both men and women https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/UC-Berkeley-researchers-develop-hormone-free-13757001.php
(04/11/2019) Chinese scientists put human brain genes into monkeys https://nypost.com/2019/04/11/chinese-scientists-put-human-brain-genes-into-monkeys/
(04/16/2019) First U.S. Patients Treated With CRISPR As Human Gene-Editing Trials Get Underway https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/16/712402435/first-u-s-patients-treated-with-crispr-as-gene-editing-human-trials-get-underway
(04/19/2019) The Helmet That ‘Resets’ Your Brain - Magnetic stimulation is helping some people with depression https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/04/depression-helmet/587242/
(05/14/2019) Human babies born using an artificial womb ‘possible in a decade’ https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/14/human-babies-born-using-an-artificial-womb-possible-in-a-decade-8156458/
(06/10/2019) Upgrade Your Memory With a Surgically Implanted Chip https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-10/upgrade-your-memory-with-a-surgically-implanted-chip
