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Scientists Near Breakthrough to Revolutionize Human Reproduction

It may sound like science fiction, but it’s not. NPR reports that scientists not only may soon be able to mass produce eggs and sperm in a lab from any cell in a person’s body but will be able to create embryos to make a child using just one parent’s cells. Known as in vitro gametogenesis, or IVG, this means humans could create babies and give birth just with their own DNA, without the “help” of someone else’s sperm and eggs. Scientists say this...