This biotech could one day make human eggs from scratch. But first, they’re trying to rethink IVF
Biotech startup Gameto is trying to boosting the odds of success in IVF by creating support cells designed to help eggs mature outside the body.
Christian Kramme grew up in a big family, the youngest of seven kids raised in California’s Santa Clarita Valley. By the time he moved across the country to do a PhD in George Church’s lab at Harvard, his siblings were already trying to start families of their own. And some of them were struggling. So when Church, the legendary geneticist and cell engineer, asked Kramme what he wanted to work on, he decided to swing big; he wanted to make eggs. Human eggs. From scratch.
“There was really no precedent in his lab,” said Kramme. “When I arrived, not a single person there was working on reproduction.”
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