One day it might be possible to grow our own tissue or embryo models in remote personal biobanks. What would that make them: part of us? Or new entities entirely? A new horizon of ethics and regulation is approaching; in our final episode we ask how lawyers are thinking through these questions and more.
Within the next century it could be possible to request a new organ from our own cells as easily as ordering a new kitchen....
How does new life go from a ball of cells to a structure that's recognisably human? We don't know. Scientists hope to find out...
Up till now new life began with eggs made in the ovaries, precious and finite. But what if eggs - and sperm - could...