Making eggs

[Edward M. Grant]

I don't have a link handy, but a research paper was published recently by researchers who have been able to create human eggs from blood cells: it's been possible in mice for a long time, but only now reproduced in humans.

Which means female celebrities better be careful who gets hold of their blood in future, or they're going to discover they've had lots of kids they never knew about.

Possibly male too, it if can be extended to sperms, but they may need a larger blood sample to create enough to be viable.

 

[tinkerdan]

This is blood cells that are blanked out and can be programed to anything(theoretically).
Scientists Just Made Human Egg Cells from Human Blood for the First Time
So it's not so limited to gender and this article mentions same sex partners being able to procreate.

The eggs produced were very immature and they haven't perfected sperm yet-maybe....

 

[Edward M. Grant]

It's certainly possible, but AFAIR they've only created sperms from bone marrow so far.