This week’s cover

This week’s cover story was about babymaking. Most Economist readers will probably know someone who is struggling with infertility. One person in six suffers from it, and today’s main method for treating it is nowhere near as good as we would like. In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is painful, costly and often doesn’t work. But as we describe in a Technology Quarterly and a film, there is some remarkable new technology on the horizon that one day might help.