Bringing perspective to the next wave of human ARTs

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2018 has brought many surprises, some resolutions to high-profile claims, and further prospects at the junction of new technology and human ARTs. Within a year’s time, we have seen the publication of reports spanning the old and new when it comes to basic discoveries in mammalian reproduction and their potential applicability to the diagnosis and treatment of human infertility. Moreover, shoehorning emergent technologies into the everyday practice of human ARTs has become increasingly recognized as a bad idea, broadly speaking, until appropriate and thorough lines of evidence are in hand fully validating safety and efficiency. Such a realization follows the fast-paced dissemination of information through media outlets well in excess, quantitatively and qualitatively, of traditional peer review and its acceptance by the biomedical research community at large. …