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It's wild that in the year 2026 modern science can't recreate a SINGLE cell (which is what a human egg/ovum is).
by the_real_cher 8mo ago
It's wild that in the year 2026 modern science can't recreate a SINGLE cell (which is what a human egg/ovum is).
- jokowueu 8mo agoit's possible to convert stem cells or skin cells into functional egg cells (ova) in lab settings, though the technology remains experimental and not yet ready for routine clinical use
- the_real_cher 7mo agoI'm always reading about amazing stuff like this with modern medicine. Things that work great in lab settings: cures for cancer, organ scaffolding, regrowing teeth, etc etc. Never hear about it again after the initial news.
- njarboe 7mo agoLots of tech gets discovered, is heavily patented, and then 20 years late,r when that large first round of patents expire, people start working on and developing the tech.
- bonsai_spool 7mo ago> Never hear about it again after the initial news. Perhaps it is because you're not a specialist—all of these things are still worked on.
- DANmode 7mo agoAre you looking for an explanation, or a fix, for this? (The fix is to consume less popular science types of sources.)
- greygoo222 7mo ago"Regrowing teeth" started human trials last June. Development takes time. And there is no single cure to cancer.
- peddling-brink 7mo agoTrees are high technology. I’m not sure we’ll match that even in 100 years.
- arjie 7mo agoWell, that seems a bit reductive because nothing can create a single cell right now. All cells are self-copied-and-divided. Omnis cellula e cellula, as they say. There is no cell constructor anywhere. Both Nature and Artifice use the same device to make more cells: a previous cell.
- the_real_cher 7mo agoTheres components though. And where theres components theres building blocks. And where theres building blocks engineering is possible.
- benlivengood 7mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_laboratorium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_laboratorium describes the closest we've gotten; synthesizing the DNA and swapping it into an existing cell which then propagates the synthetic gene line.
- ravenstine 7mo agoI honestly don't look forward to the day that we can do that. It may redefine our very existence more so than even automation.
- greygoo222 7mo agoThat's exactly why I look forward to it!
- DanielHB 7mo agoTo encode all the atomic data and relative position of a single human cell probably would take a good chunk of all the hard drives in the world. A cell is not like a silicon chip where 99% of it is just repeating the same patterns.
- ekjhgkejhgk 7mo agoIt wouldn't be wild if you understood how complex cells are.