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Egg and sperm are required to make a baby. What if people cannot use their egg and sperm to conceive

and a donor is not available/desired?

We want to explore with you a future method to create eggs and sperm from other body cells in vitro.

To make a baby

An egg and a sperm are needed,

either from the intended parent

or a donor

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What if we could make

eggs and sperm in the lab

from a person's own skin cells?

The scientific name for this research is

"in vitro gametogenesis" or IVG for short

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Researching infertility

Making eggs and sperm in vitro could also be very helpful for scientists to study the causes of infertility.

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