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Sep 15, 2026
83 IVF Clinics, Artificial Ovaries, Embryo Robots | Martin Varsavsky
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18:48MgoesHOST
And I guess the next logical question is what do you think once this happens, where, where do you draw the limitations of this technology? Um, so for context, I know that Gameto has licensed some foundational males' IP, I believe from the George Church lab in January, um, to advance an ovary in a dish platform.
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19:11MgoesHOST
So do we go from here to a full in vitro gametogenesis, where the egg can be generated from a human skin cell, so you don't have to take a real egg and culture it at all? Or, yeah, like, what, what was the end state of all of this?
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19:25Martin VarsavskyGUEST
Well, that's not Gameto's mission.
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19:28Martin VarsavskyGUEST
There are other companies focused on this.
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19:46Martin VarsavskyGUEST
Okay? And we got an ARPA-H grant of $10 million for doing this.
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19:51Martin VarsavskyGUEST
Uh, those are the two things we're working on.
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19:54Martin VarsavskyGUEST
We're not working on in vitro gametogenesis.
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19:57MgoesHOST
You, you're not working on it right now, or it's, it's not anything that you'll be interested in for, I don't know, like philosophical reasons or some other reasons?