In Dr Djerassi's future world, men and women will have their sperm and eggs frozen in their 20s and then undergo sterilisation, free to pursue their professional and sexual interests content in the knowledge that their cells can be safely resurrected and reliably made to unite in a test-tube whenever they want a child.

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Goodfellow and his ICRF colleagues figured that if they could understand what decided whether a person grew male or female sexual organs--the most fundamental of developmental decisions--they might better understand the erroneous decisions made by cells at the start of cancer.

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