The first early human eggs from stem cells

(conception.bio)

69 points | by dsr12 2 hours ago

5 comments

  • gnabgib 2 hours ago
    Related (2021) Turning stem cells into human eggs (97 points, 102 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29040823
  • misiek08 1 hour ago
    How hard you have to work to break scroll on web page? Nice article, but going through it was a technical nightmare.

    Can we stop adding unnecessary JS to website to stop global warming by calculating AND ALTERING SCROLL?

    • happymellon 54 minutes ago
      Odd. It was a designers dream (and a readability nightmare) but I didn't have an issue with scroll.

      Firefox on Samsung S23, not exactly a new or a powerful phone but rendered it fine.

    • sudo_cowsay 1 hour ago
      Good idea in theory but terribly impractical in practice.
  • scotty79 1 hour ago
    That can't be good. Life cycle of a human egg is organized around preserving mitochondria to be as young and fresh as possible across generations. Using adult cell, even a stem cell to make an egg probably gives it mitochondrial damage that usually takes hundreds of human generations to accumulate.
    • Protostome 50 minutes ago
      Mitochondria can be translplanted/replaced. There already therapies and babies born out of these kinds of procedures
      • scotty79 46 minutes ago
        Can you point me to anything about mitochondrial transplants? I'd love to see bat mitochondria transplanted into other mammals. They must have really superior ones given the energy expenditures needed to support flight and their long lifespans.
    • treyd 56 minutes ago
      I wonder if you could coax cells from the testes back into stem cells to then re-specialize into ovarian cells.
    • Jackobrien 53 minutes ago
      Really interesting point if true. Makes sense to me, and I’m sure the team is trying to solve it
    • rf15 56 minutes ago
      genuinely curious: how does any life still exist if this holds true?
      • scotty79 45 minutes ago
        When the damage accumulates across generations the natural selection has opportunity to weed out particularly harmful instances. You can get a feeling for how important avoiding the mitochondrial damage is and how hard it is to mitigate, by looking at how fiercely the reproductive process protects them from aging.
  • shevy-java 2 hours ago
    A japanese scientist again (Katsuhiko Hayashi is in Osaka).

    Shinya Yamanaka created iPSPs in 2009:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya_Yamanaka

    Guess the japanese excel at micromanaging. Although one could say that the research here in the article is more epic than Shinya's discovery, but I remember having watched one of his presentation and it convinced me of pure epicness, if you understand how his team found the "Yamanaka factors". That was by human (work) consistency. About as epic as Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and her mutant screens, that also involved tons of micro-experiments.

  • Schlagbohrer 15 minutes ago
    The origins of stem cells for use in the biosciences and in cosmetics are extremely brutal and should be illegal. Sandra Bullock explains it better than I could: https://youtu.be/PwO3TEj9-5g