Blake Dodge

Normally, in-vitro fertilization, or IVF, is a manual affair.A doctor performs a small surgery, places the patient’s eggs in a test tube, and passes the tube through a little window to a lab, where a scientist combines them with sperm.At a small clinic in Guadalajara, Mexico, the process is radically different. Once that test tube makes it through the window, it’s handed over to robots backed by a vast AI infrastructure. There, a startup called Conceivable Life Sciences is automating the IVF lab…

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