Podcast
BioHacked: Family Secrets
BioHacked tells startling true stories of the people caught between two multi-trillion-dollar industries — medicine and technology — and chronicles how their lives are transformed. Listen as the children of anonymous sperm and egg donors — some with dozens or hundreds of half-siblings — take on the fertility industry. As they uncover the identities of their donors and gather vital medical information, unexpected ethical, scientific, and political challenges arise that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about the baby business.
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- Documentary chart
- #131
- Episodes
- 14
- Releases
- Daily
- Typical length
- 39 min
- On air since
- 2022
- Latest episode
- 3 weeks ago
Episodes
14 episodes, from the first
Season 1
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39 min
1. Pandora’s Box
Episode 1
Show notes
A Christmas present turns Amber’s life upside down. Shaken, she questions the very foundation of her identity — and struggles to learn the truth.
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38 min
2. Lost and Found
Episode 2
Show notes
Kurt donated his sperm hundreds of times. He thought his identity could stay hidden forever, but Amber and Kaitlin are on his trail. Will he connect with them, or forever remain a mystery?
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37 min
3. The Birth of The Sperm Bank
Episode 3
Show notes
Frozen semen, a media circus, and the father of sperm banking. The man and the moment that gave life to millions — and catapulted the fertility industry into a global business.
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35 min
4. The Genius Experiment: Part 1
Episode 4
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An improbable tale to transform the human race, one genius at a time. Find out how a plan so seemingly out there wound up revolutionizing the baby business.
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39 min
5. The Genius Experiment: Part 2
Episode 5
Show notes
A look at a family built by Robert Graham’s infamous Repository for Germinal Choice reveals the dark side of this genius sperm bank.
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38 min
6. Wrongful Life
Episode 6
Show notes
The David and Goliath battle between an industry powerhouse and a family with a sick child.
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34 min
7. Cease and Desist
Episode 7
Show notes
A grandmother, a granddaughter, and one anonymous donor's fight to maintain his privacy. What happens when a genetic test creates a family rift?
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43 min
8. A Deadly Donation?
Episode 8
Show notes
Thousands of women donate eggs for cash or freeze them for personal use. Could this life-altering treatment be a lot more dangerous than we think?
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40 min
9. Anger To Action
Episode 9
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Donor conceived activists want lasting change, but they'll have to go big with their plans to overhaul the baby business. They've organized and strategized — and now, they're ready to take on the multi-billion dollar industry that created them. Even if it is an uphill battle.
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41 min
10. The Great Sperm Drought
Episode 10
Show notes
Fertility industry experts have a warning for donor conceived activists: new rules in the baby business could have some big, unintended consequences.
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41 min
11. Underground Markets
Episode 11
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From Facebook groups to Tinder-like apps, a new generation of parents are using unregulated tech to form families outside the baby business. Get to know the women and couples seeking out sperm online – and the donors stepping up to the plate to help them.
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44 min
12. A Future Without Shame
Episode 12
Show notes
The baby business has used shame and secrecy as tools for decades. But a new generation of parents are removing stigma by leaning into a model that centers love, science, and determination. How can the lessons of the past shape the way forward for the fertility industry?
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3 min
Introducing BioHacked: Family Secrets Trailer
Show notes
In the age of DNA, not many things can stay buried forever. BioHacked S1: Family Secrets, explores how at-home genetic testing is upending the baby business, and putting the children of anonymous sperm and egg donors into direct conflict with the industry that created them. Coming March 9th.
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7 min
Introducing DOCTOR BILLIONS: Thousands of Patients. Fake Parts. Who Was Next? Trailer
Show notes
After a work injury, Derika Moses had her spine fused. Then her pain got worse.
Years later, a letter arrived. The hardware in her back might be counterfeit. Not sterile. Not FDA approved. Made in a dingy machine shop in Southern California.
She wasn't the only one. Thousands of patients. Dozens of doctors, lawyers and healthcare workers. One of the largest healthcare frauds in U.S. history, run out of a Long Beach hospital by an elusive man...
Peabody Award-winning journalist Ben Adair follows the money and finds the people who paid for it with their bodies.
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