{"id":129767,"date":"2021-10-31T22:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T05:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/how-silicon-valley-hatched-a-plan-to-turn-blood-into-human-eggs"},"modified":"2021-10-31T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T05:22:34","slug":"how-silicon-valley-hatched-a-plan-to-turn-blood-into-human-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/how-silicon-valley-hatched-a-plan-to-turn-blood-into-human-eggs","title":{"rendered":"How Silicon Valley hatched a plan to turn blood into human eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-silicon-valley-hatched-a-plan-to-turn-blood-into-human-eggs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conception is starting with blood cells from female donors and trying to transform these into the first \u201cproof-of-concept human egg\u201d made in the lab. The company hasn\u2019t done it yet\u2014nor has anyone else. There are still scientific puzzles to overcome, but Krisiloff sent out an email to supporters earlier this year saying his startup might be \u201cthe first in the world to accomplish this goal in the not-too-distant future.\u201d It says that artificial eggs \u201ccould become one of the most important technologies ever created.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s no exaggeration. If scientists can generate supplies of eggs, it would break the rules of reproduction as we know them. Women without ovaries\u2014for example, because of cancer or surgery\u2014might be able to have biologically related children. What\u2019s more, lab-made eggs would cancel the age limits on female fertility, allowing women to have related babies at 50 60, or even beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conception is starting with blood cells from female donors and trying to transform these into the first \u201cproof-of-concept human egg\u201d made in the lab. The company hasn\u2019t done it yet\u2014nor has anyone else. There are still scientific puzzles to overcome, but Krisiloff sent out an email to supporters earlier this year saying his startup might [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}