From artefactual to artificial intelligence—meeting the needs of ART patients and practitioners

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Beachside conversations for vacationers up here in the northern hemisphere have acquired more the tone of dismay, malcontent, incredulity, and what next given the abrupt changes in the global political landscape witnessed over the past year. Distinguishing fact from artefact, fiction from non-fiction, or historical from hysterical fiction, has become part and parcel of a world order turned upside down. And with fertility and infertility frequenting these conversations, those of us working in the world of reproductive medicine and biology quickly come to realize what it is like being in the public limelight during such troubled times. Under the microscope we now reside—subject to the whims and fancies of a media infrastructure that is as disabled as it is misleading to consumers of ARTs—take a look at one of the many examples that appeared this summer here in the USA: https://​www.​cbsnews.​com/​news/​ivf-testing-spurs-debate-over-mosaic-embryos/​. …