Creating life in a lab may be the theme of sci-fi movies, but if researchers at a Harvard lab succeed in their quest to create human eggs, from scratch, in their lab, it could redefine what sci-fi really is.

Whether you call that disturbing or exciting, scientists are well on their way to growing humans in a lab, with the success they’ve already had from taking rodent stem cells and growing them into sperm and eggs. Not only that, but they’ve also stepped one toe over the line by succeeding in creating eggs from the stem cells of a male mouse.

They’ve also made enough advances on the human version of the experiment to raise $40 million from private investors for the quest to produce eggs in a Petrie dish. If their dream comes true, they will sell its egg maturation product to fertility clinics in the U.S. and Europe.

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STAT News April 4, 2023