{"id":204576,"date":"2025-01-26T15:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T21:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/technology-for-lab-grown-eggs-or-sperm-on-brink-of-viability-uk-fertility-watchdog-finds"},"modified":"2025-01-26T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T21:17:07","slug":"technology-for-lab-grown-eggs-or-sperm-on-brink-of-viability-uk-fertility-watchdog-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/technology-for-lab-grown-eggs-or-sperm-on-brink-of-viability-uk-fertility-watchdog-finds","title":{"rendered":"Technology for lab-grown eggs or sperm on brink of viability, UK fertility watchdog finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/technology-for-lab-grown-eggs-or-sperm-on-brink-of-viability-uk-fertility-watchdog-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bolstered by Silicon Valley investment, scientists are making such rapid progress that lab-grown human eggs and sperm could be a reality within a decade, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hfea.gov.uk\/media\/qgmfzsmo\/2025-01-22-authority-papers.pdf\">meeting of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority board<\/a> heard last week.<\/p>\n<p>In-vitro gametes (IVGs), eggs or sperm that are created in the lab from genetically reprogrammed skin or stem cells, are viewed as the holy grail of fertility research.<\/p>\n<p>The technology promises to remove age barriers to conception and could pave the way for same-sex couples to have biological children together. It also poses unprecedented medical and ethical risks, which the HFEA now believes need to be considered in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/nov\/14\/egg-and-sperm-donors-to-lose-right-to-anonymity-at-birth-under-proposed-laws\">proposed overhaul of fertility laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolstered by Silicon Valley investment, scientists are making such rapid progress that lab-grown human eggs and sperm could be a reality within a decade, a meeting of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority board heard last week. In-vitro gametes (IVGs), eggs or sperm that are created in the lab from genetically reprogrammed skin or stem [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204576","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}