Press enter or click to view image in full size Image credit-self created 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. While politicians debate falling birth rates and economists warn of collapsing workforces, Wang spends her days studying the earliest moments of human life itself. Not babies. Not pregnancies. But the mysterious hours and days before a human being even fully exists.…