IVF is an 'evolutionary experiment' and ‘could prove a health disaster’

Assisted reproduction is an “evolutionary experiment” that could prove as big a health disaster as junk food, a scientist has warned.

Pascal Gagneux, an evolutionary biologist from the University of California at San Diego in the US, believes the technology may be storing up trouble for ageing populations of IVF children.

Of the estimated 5m IVF offspring alive today, the oldest of them — British ‘test tube baby’ Louise Brown — is only 39.