yeah. yeah. I really hope we get into a future where its possible to somehow make synthetic eggs and such out of some regular cells DNA. thatd be awesome.
i think the problem is not to make synthetic eggs. that should already be possible, at least in theory. you can take a normal egg cell and then replace the nucleus (that contains the DNA) with the nucleus from another cell. There: custom egg cell.
The problem is more, what comes next? The egg has to grow in a biological woman; i’m quite sure that we’re really far away from machine-baby-carrying.
so you would still need a person to carry the egg around, and currently, that’s actually the bigger problem (at least legally).
ngl i think this whole biological children thing is overrated. all humans share pretty much the same dna. i think it’s much more important what impact one has on their children and what values they pass along.
its veeeeery much a personal thing about how highly one values that and… ive seen enough very loud voices say that one should always adopt cuz of whatever moral things which reeeeally felt wrong especially coming from peeps out of the queer community where, u know, choice is usually valued highly. i get where its coming from but wow some peeps are aggressive with it sometime-…
We actually aren’t too far away from that. It’s called IVG (in vitro gametogenesis). Over a decade of research has already been done on other animals, and in recent years they’ve moved on to getting it to work with human cells.
yeah. yeah. I really hope we get into a future where its possible to somehow make synthetic eggs and such out of some regular cells DNA. thatd be awesome.
i think the problem is not to make synthetic eggs. that should already be possible, at least in theory. you can take a normal egg cell and then replace the nucleus (that contains the DNA) with the nucleus from another cell. There: custom egg cell.
The problem is more, what comes next? The egg has to grow in a biological woman; i’m quite sure that we’re really far away from machine-baby-carrying.
so you would still need a person to carry the egg around, and currently, that’s actually the bigger problem (at least legally).
ngl i think this whole biological children thing is overrated. all humans share pretty much the same dna. i think it’s much more important what impact one has on their children and what values they pass along.
its veeeeery much a personal thing about how highly one values that and… ive seen enough very loud voices say that one should always adopt cuz of whatever moral things which reeeeally felt wrong especially coming from peeps out of the queer community where, u know, choice is usually valued highly. i get where its coming from but wow some peeps are aggressive with it sometime-…
We are close to swapping DNA in donated eggs
Already very much capable of doing that, just illegal in most (big) countries.
exciting!
We actually aren’t too far away from that. It’s called IVG (in vitro gametogenesis). Over a decade of research has already been done on other animals, and in recent years they’ve moved on to getting it to work with human cells.