since last October, molecular biologist
Katsuhiko Hayashi has received
around a dozen e‑mails from cou‑
ples, most of them middle‑aged, who
are desperate for one thing: a baby.
One menopausal woman from Eng‑
land offered to come to his labora‑
tory at Kyoto University in Japan in the hope
that he could help her to conceive a child. “That
is my only wish,” she wrote.