MIT Technology Review's What's Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of themhere. Forty-eight years ago this July, Louise Joy Brown became the world's first person born with the help of in vitro fertilization. Millions more IVF babies have entered...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. What's next for IVF IVF has brought millions of babies into the world over the last four decades. But the process can still be slow, painful, and expensive-and far from guaranteed...