Scientists have promised progress in fertility Techniko and Britain’s fertility guard group gathered last week to make sure it was prepared. When it comes, in-glass games (IVG) will change the way people have babies. IVG could open the door to same -sex couples having biological children, older couples having children, and complex children formed from more than 4 different genetic donors.
As first reported by The guardianThe members of the Board of Human Fertility and embryological authority of Britain (HFEA) met on January 22 to discuss the Review of fertility laws In the UK, the HFEA is an independent body that regulates fertility clinics in the UK by licensing, monitoring and inspection.
Much of its recent meeting has been delivered to talk about IVG, technology that scientists and researchers have has long said is on the horizon. IVG would let someone create an egg or sperm cell from any cell of the human body. This means that some skin could become a sperm that fertilizes an egg with one’s genetic material.
It is the “holy graal” of fertility treatment and would mean that people who otherwise cannot donate genetic material for a child could do so. This would open fertility treatments to older couples, but would also create a world where same -sex couples could mix their genes.
“The possibility of using IVGs to enable ethically and socially complex reproduction such as ‘Multiplex parenting’ (IVGs created from more than two parents),” HFEA’s presentation said. “This could result in offspring genetically related to four parents, who would technically be the child’s genetic grandparents.”
It would also be possible to some “solo parent”, or make a child creating both the egg and the sperm of the same donor. Although, as HFEA has noticed, the probability of genetic diseases in such a case is high, and doing so is probably not ethical.
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Rebbeca Taylor, HFEA’s scientific political administrator, noted that scientists have made IVG in mice but not in humans or primates. However. “There is no agreement among scientists about how far these are,” she said during the presentation. In 2021, US scientists promised that they could realize it by 2023. They missed the deadline.
Scientists, however, were able to make children Two male mice Using IVG. Researchers said that early indications of mouse puppies created by IVG were all healthy and the early indications are that there is no reason that this also does not have to work well for primates and people.
The introduction of IVG would change the way we think of concept, genetics and children. People have raised one way for thousands of years and in-glass fertilization has only about 50 years.
The HFEA conference was a bit dry, but it was interesting. New technology is on the horizon that could shake the basics of what it means to have children across the planet. They try to catch it and decide what the role of government is in the process.
That alone is worth listening to it.
