in vitro gametogenesis

Diana and Paul Zucknick have tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to have children. The Austin, Texas, couple are intrigued by scientific research that may someday make it possible to create eggs and sperm from their skin cells.

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Infertile people, gay and trans couples yearn for progress on lab-made eggs and sperm

4:38pm December 13, 2023

by Rob Stein

An experimental technology that might someday allow infertile couples, as well as gay and trans couples, to have genetically related children stirs hope. So far, the technique has worked in mice.

Katsuhiko Hayashi, a developmental geneticist at Osaka University, is working on ways to make what he calls "artificial" eggs and sperm from any cell in the human body.

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Japanese scientists race to create human eggs and sperm in the lab

6:38pm September 28, 2023

by Rob Stein

Scientists in Japan are leaders in the development of IVG, new technology that could make sperm and eggs from practically any cell in the body. The results could transform human reproduction.

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Conception's chief scientific officer, Pablo Hurtado, examines very early primordial germ cells under a microscope in a company lab in Berkeley, California.

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Startup aims to make lab-grown human eggs, transforming options for creating families

6:01am July 15, 2023

by Rob Stein

New companies are working to commercialize in vitro gametogenesis, or IVG, a technology that could make human eggs and sperm in the lab from any cell in the body.

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