New Research Could Change the Landscape of Human Reproduction
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🗓️ 18 July 2023
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Summary
In vitro gametogenesis, or IVG, would enable infertile women and men to have children with their own DNA instead of genes from the sperm and eggs of donors. It would also provide queer couples the opportunity to have children biologically related to both partners.
NPR health correspondent Rob Stein reports on the excitement and concerns this new technology has fueled.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Jeremy and I was not supposed to be here. |
| 0:12.4 | Both of my parents were infertile. |
| 0:14.2 | They were not supposed to be able to have children. |
| 0:16.6 | Like millions of adults, Jeremy's parents struggled to conceive a baby. |
| 0:21.3 | He's one of the listeners who left messages for MPR Member Station WAMU's 1A program, |
| 0:26.7 | for an episode about fertility. |
| 0:29.5 | Those who left messages only use their first names. |
| 0:32.1 | They started trying in the late 60s and then about 10 years later, they conceived and I'm |
| 0:37.7 | the result. |
| 0:38.7 | They tried a lot of things and had many doctors tell them that they were not supposed |
| 0:42.0 | to be able to have kids, but they persevered and kept trying and here I am. |
| 0:48.2 | There are several options currently available if you are trying to have a baby, including |
| 0:53.0 | fertility medication, sperm or egg donors adoption and in vitro fertilization or IVP. |
| 0:59.5 | The F, which is a medical procedure, where an egg is fertilized by sperm in a lab dish. |
| 1:04.8 | But IVF can take a toll on the people undergoing that treatment. |
| 1:08.3 | Melissa Cummings is a physical therapist who also spoke to WAMU. |
| 1:12.3 | She went through 10 years of fertility treatments. |
| 1:16.4 | You don't really understand until you've been through it just how much stress it causes, |
| 1:22.9 | how much disappointment, how much the cycle of the monthly cycle of hoping to get pregnant |
| 1:29.3 | and then not getting pregnant, how much that emotional up and down wears on all your |
| 1:34.6 | personal relationships. |
| 1:36.8 | Treatments can be a lot, emotionally, physically, financially, and they're not guaranteed to |
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