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Conception: How Silicon Valley hatched a plan to turn blood into lab-made human eggs | MIT Technology Review

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A well-connected startup company is trying to rewrite the rules of reproduction.

Conception: How Silicon Valley hatched a plan to turn blood into lab-made human eggs | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content A few years ago, a young man from California’s technology scene began popping up in the world’s leading developmental biology labs. These labs were deciphering the secrets of embryos and had a particular interest in how eggs are formed. Some thought if they discovered that recipe, they would be able to copy it and transmute any cell into an egg. Their visitor, Matt Krisiloff, said he wanted to help. Krisiloff didn’t know any biology, and he was only 26. But after leading

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