We engineered stem cells to make human eggs, tech firm says

One company believes biology should not limit who should be able to conceive children.

That same company says it has now made strides to turn that belief into a reality.

‘Yeah, I’m gay, and it’s something that got me so personally interested.’

Fertility company Conception announced last week that it accomplished what was, until recently, only possible with mice: creating early human egg cells.

“Biology limits who can have children and when,” Conception says on its website. “Egg supply declines and medical barriers can limit fertility entirely, as birthrates fall across the globe.”

To counteract this, Conception says, it has finally “generated the first early human eggs derived from stem cells.”

CEO Matt Krisiloff said that after a simple blood draw, his company converted blood cells into stem cells, and from