Stanford University professor Henry Greely says that within 20-40 years, hopeful mothers will be able to choose from a plethora of embryos that they can have inserted into the womb.
Advances in medical science have shown that scientists can take the skin cells of mice and turn them into eggs, without them being harvested from the womb.
In humans, the skin cells could be turned into dozens of eggs, and each of them would be decoded and analysed allowing scientists to look for genetic predispositions, both for disease and personal traits.
The best egg would then be fertilised by the sperm and placed on the woman.
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