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China Is Racing Against Time – And Women’s Bodies Have Become the New Frontier of Science

For decades, China feared one thing more than anything else: too many people.

Now, it fears the exact opposite.

In laboratories hidden behind sterile glass walls in Beijing, scientists are working on experiments that sound like science fiction – delaying menopause, preserving human eggs, growing embryo-like structures from stem cells, and possibly extending the biological clock of women far beyond what nature intended.

At the center of this quiet revolution stands Hongmei Wang, a soft-spoken Chinese biologist born in Inner Mongolia more than five decades ago.…