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://t.co/Vk1Ot8hK0l
(05/17/2017) Exposure to BPA potentially induces permanent reprogramming of painted turtles' brains
https://t.co/8N3wWkRtSl
(07/23/2017) A Spanish scientist is making robots that he thinks could end sex between humans
https://t.co/80CwxRsINP
(03/08/2018) It’s Time to Make Human-Chimp Hybrids.
The humanzee is both scientifically possible and morally defensible.
https://t.co/R925n7ieWz
(03/16/2018) Artificial wombs intended to save premature babies — for now. Next step could be 'immaculate gestation'
https://t.co/TqLAZ4rYqr
(09/04/2018) Sperm Count Zero
https://t.co/SUFhq27RmJ
(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://t.co/5JQuThCDob
(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://t.co/Gj8fT33JSU
(11/30/2018) The First Clinical Trial of a Male Birth Control Gel Is Under Way
https://t.co/GyhuoIrlWG
(12/06/2018) This womb transplant breakthrough could open up pregnancy to all sexes
https://t.co/3xRJBJZg9t
(01/30/2019) The Death of a Dreamer
https://t.co/5VUT5lZF92
(02/08/2019) Transgender women 'should be entitled to womb transplants' so they can have a baby
https://t.co/dNX4mbTifk
(03/26/2019) Male pill - why are we still waiting?
https://t.co/YLW5Vv5wl0
(04/04/2019) The engineering of living organisms could soon start changing everything
https://t.co/Tbta3PBNag
(04/10/2019) UC Berkeley researchers develop hormone-free birth control pills for both men and women
https://t.co/umWSLnfekV
(04/11/2019) Chinese scientists put human brain genes into monkeys
https://t.co/99poklXBdP
(04/16/2019) First U.S. Patients Treated With CRISPR As Human Gene-Editing Trials Get Underway
https://t.co/UDzTzCVHDb
(04/19/2019) The Helmet That ‘Resets’ Your Brain - Magnetic stimulation is helping some people with depression
https://t.co/rAWZivAXdP
(05/14/2019) Human babies born using an artificial womb ‘possible in a decade’
https://t.co/UWyG3BLkL6
(06/10/2019) Upgrade Your Memory With a Surgically Implanted Chip
https://t.co/Piy8c5nK53

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