Exclusive: In-vitro gametes are viewed as the holy grail of fertility research

  • Wahots@pawb.social
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    11 days ago

    This honestly sounds really interesting for same-sex families. I hope this technology works out sooner rather than later. It would be really nice to potentially have a fully biological family like straight couples :)

    (And it might eventually be way less expensive than adopting donor eggs/sperm)

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      11 days ago

      Would lesbians be able to have boys if both gave their material? Women only have X sex chromosomes and men have both X and Y, so if I’m not mistaken two (or more) lesbians wouldn’t be able to conceive boys.

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      • Beacon@fedia.io
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        7 days ago

        Sounds correct to me. Females are XX, so neither parent would have the Y that’s necessary to make an XY male.