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Thank you for the details about this article but that's not quite what I meant. I meant where do you get enough stem cells to make the procedure widely availab

• JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  > Stem cells are kinda scarce, as far as I know Embryonic stem cells are rare in America because of religious types. They're not particularly difficult to manufacture or extract--the limit is really human eggs, and we can make those in the lab [1]. (Human sperm are not, for many reasons, difficult to secure.) I'd actually guess hESCs would be the cheapest route. If we insist on iPSCs, then this turns into a personalised medicine treatment. But in that, it's no different from e.g. oncology. [1] https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5553322/ivg-human-eggs-cells-fertility https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5553322/ivg-human-eggs-...