This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Earlier this year, a boy in Sweden celebrated his 10th birthday. Reproductive scientists and doctors marked the occasion too. This little boy’s birth had been special. He was the first person to be born from a transplanted uterus. The boy was born in 2014 after his mother, a 35-year-old woman who had been born without a uterus, received a donated uterus from a…
