Somewhere near where you live, a couple will discover this week that they are infertile and that if they want biological children of their own, they are going to need invitrofertilization (or IVF).
Even more radical was the invention, in 1978, of in-vitro fertilization, or IVF, the now-common technique in which egg and sperm meet in a laboratory petri dish and create an embryo that is then implanted in the would-be mother's womb.