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by Metacelsus 1052 days ago
1 and 2: Yes that's what we're doing (in partnership with Gameto, the startup commercializing this tech). See our recent preprints: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.27.534477v2 and https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.27.534479v2

3: I'm definitely excited about in vitro oogenesis and that's the direction I want to take this in the future. Right now, we're not able to reliably get the germ cells to do meiosis, so that's what I'm working on.

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How long until we're looking at a home appliance that can grow a baby to maturation from a genetic sample?

What are the biggest bottlenecks?

How do you anticipate such a device will be regulated?

What do you anticipate will be the response from the pro-life right?

From the antiscience antivax type community?

That's a completely different technology, artificial wombs are much harder than artificial ovaries. Very unlikely within 20 years, I won't speculate past that point.