Posted on May 28, 2023
Creating a sperm or egg from any cell? Reproduction revolution on the horizon
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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/27/ [login to see] /sperm-or-egg-in-lab-breakthrough-in-reproduction-designer-babies-ivg
It's a Wednesday morning at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in downtown Washington, D.C., and Dr. Eli Adashi is opening an unprecedented gathering: It's titled "In-Vitro Derived Human Gametes as a Reproductive Technology."
It's the academy's first workshop to explore in-vitro gametogenesis, or IVG, which involves custom-making human eggs and sperm in the laboratory from any cell in a person's body.
"It is on the precipice of materialization," says Adashi, a reproductive biology specialist from Brown University. "And IVF will probably never be the same."
For the next three days, dozens of scientists, bioethicists, doctors, and others describe the latest scientific advances in IVG and explore the potentially far-reaching thicket of social, ethical, moral, legal and regulatory ramifications of the emerging technology. Hundreds more attend the workshop remotely.
"The implications here are huge," says Alana Cattapan, who studies reproductive health issues at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
It's a Wednesday morning at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in downtown Washington, D.C., and Dr. Eli Adashi is opening an unprecedented gathering: It's titled "In-Vitro Derived Human Gametes as a Reproductive Technology."
It's the academy's first workshop to explore in-vitro gametogenesis, or IVG, which involves custom-making human eggs and sperm in the laboratory from any cell in a person's body.
"It is on the precipice of materialization," says Adashi, a reproductive biology specialist from Brown University. "And IVF will probably never be the same."
For the next three days, dozens of scientists, bioethicists, doctors, and others describe the latest scientific advances in IVG and explore the potentially far-reaching thicket of social, ethical, moral, legal and regulatory ramifications of the emerging technology. Hundreds more attend the workshop remotely.
"The implications here are huge," says Alana Cattapan, who studies reproductive health issues at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Creating a sperm or egg from any cell? Reproduction revolution on the horizon
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And I find it quite interesting that at birth women posses all their lifetime ova. For men we are blessed with an inordinate number of sperm; and the vast majority of the time they do not score. In essence our sperm is impotent!
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One more step towards the totalitarian dream of doing away with free will in the general populace.
This is exactly in line with Karl Marx's intention of "seizing the means of production." He meant the production of "man," not things.
He wasn't an economist - he was a religious zealot who wanted to recreate mankind in line with his cult's ideology to bring about an end of the world and a return to the one "true" god which they believe themselves to be part of and conscious agents of.
Who is funding this?
This is exactly in line with Karl Marx's intention of "seizing the means of production." He meant the production of "man," not things.
He wasn't an economist - he was a religious zealot who wanted to recreate mankind in line with his cult's ideology to bring about an end of the world and a return to the one "true" god which they believe themselves to be part of and conscious agents of.
Who is funding this?
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