Women to Give Birth at 100 Within 3 Decades

[Clair de la Lune]

Women to give birth at 100 within three decades

Women aged 100 will be able to give birth within three decades as infertility is eradicated, scientists have predicted.



by Graham Tibbetts
Last Updated: 10:36PM BST 18 Jul 2008


They foresee a world where every female of any age - from childhood upwards - could successfully conceive.
Employing techniques still to be developed, scientists believe they could create sperm and eggs from skin cells and combine them to form embryos.

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Parents would then be able to choose a so-called "designer" baby, selecting based on characteristics such as hair colour and height to intelligence and disease-free genes.
The forecasts, reported in Nature, were made by leading scientists who were asked to anticipate advances in reproduction by 2038 to mark the 30th birthday of Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby.
Davor Solter, of the Institute of Biology in Singapore, said: "It means every person regardless of age will be able to have children. Newborn children could have children and 100-year-olds could have children. It could easily happen in the next 30 years."
Other steps forward that are envisaged are gestation taking place in an artificial womb, low-cost IVF treatment being made available at £50 a cycle and - more controversially - the creation of embryos for experiments.
Mr Solter added: "I have no idea what kind of moral value or rights we'd give to those embryos. It could be terrible to start, and then become a fact of life. Maybe 30 years from now we'll read someone made 20,000 embryos and studied their development and we'll decide it's ok."







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[Clair de la Lune]

Yeah, but is giving birth at 100 ETHICAL? Would the Mom even be alive long enough to raise the baby?

[Haven]

Just because something CAN happen, doesn't mean it SHOULD happen.

[WynterWynd]

:eyebrow: Oh hell no.......

[Clair de la Lune]

Huh!! "NEWBORNS having babies"...WTF!!:noway::durrrr:_tsk_:excuseme:

That's like, forced conception.

And, experiments on embryos. Oh boy..

Reproducing from skin cells? I will be wearing gloves wherever I go in 30 years, I guess! :uhhuhuh:

[Glowingsun]

I think by then the world will be so over populated the scientists will take their ideas and throw them in trash.

[Clair de la Lune]

I think by then the rich will have their designer babies, and the rest of us will be treated like dirt for not being genetically engineered.:cutie:

Almost like a slave class...definitely a 2nd class.

[Philosophia]

:eyebrow: Maybe my skeptical side is kicking in but I think this article is designed towards sensationalism.

[Kraheera]

I think by then the rich will have their designer babies, and the rest of us will be treated like dirt for not being genetically engineered.:cutie:

Almost like a slave class...definitely a 2nd class.


Gattaga, awesome movie, and it shows precisely this sort of thing. ^_^

Anywho, I personally think that having the capability would be nice... simply because the ability to reproduce does tend to avoid the messy hormonal situation that occurs when you lose said ability.

HOWEVER, that does not mean a 100 year old woman SHOULD reproduce. How are her bones going to handle it, and frankly, she wouldn't be able to keep up with a toddler. Energy levels are low at that age, and I don't care how advanced our tech gets, age is age, and it will bite you on the petunia.

[mephistopheles]

Ye Gods :foh:. Someone please tell me there is another article saying "HAHA GOT YA!" to be read after this? :lol:

[Caitlin.ann]

I echo Philo.