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Will “IVG” Save Society, Or Cripple It?
There’s a new technology in the fertility game — it’s really more a process than a technology, per se — which is being called “IVG.” That stands for in-vitro gametogenesis, and basically it means custom-making human eggs and sperm in the laboratory from any cell in a person’s body.
I read stuff about this with interest. It may time out poorly for me and my wife, who have been on the infertility train for about three years now, including $30,000 in expenses to have a natural baby and zero results. In related news, I just booked a Holland America cruise to Alaska. I may be pivoting.
If you’d like to read some deeper dives on what IVG is and does, here are two good ones that aren’t super scientific in scope:
