OHSU scientists removed a skin cell’s nucleus, placed it in a donor egg, induced a 'mitomeiosis' step to discard half the chromosomes, and then fertilized it with sperm. They produced 82 functional eggs and early embryos up to six days, though success was ~9% and chromosome selection was error‑prone with no crossing‑over. The method hints at future infertility treatments and same‑sex reproduction but is far from clinical use.
— This pushes urgent debates on parentage law, embryo research limits, and regulation of in‑vitro gametogenesis as a route to human reproduction.
PW Daily
2026.01.16
72% relevant
The piece reports rapid, AI/robot‑guided automation of the IVF process (Conceivable Life Sciences producing 19 babies) — a development in reproductive technology that parallels the earlier IVG/genome‑level conversation: both accelerate how reproduction is technologized and raise the same regulatory, legal and ethical questions about who controls assisted reproduction and how it is governed.
2026.01.05
70% relevant
While not reporting new data, the essay mentions in‑vitro gametogenesis and reproductive technologies; this ties to the existing IVG/skin‑cell egg idea because both address how reproductive biotech could produce new human embryos and thus alter parentage and regulation debates.
Leonora Barclay
2025.12.03
48% relevant
Both concern advances in reproductive/biotech that change family and kinship norms and trigger legal and ethical debates about parentage, oversight, and commercialization; pet cloning’s scaling (Colossal/Viagen, price points) is a proximate example of how reproductive biotechs move from lab to market, echoing themes in the existing idea.
BeauHD
2025.10.01
100% relevant
Nature Communications paper and BBC report quoting Prof. Shoukhrat Mitalipov; 82 eggs created; embryos halted at day six.