The promise and peril of emerging reproductive technologies

(Harvard Medical School) In a newly published commentary, a trio of scholars argue that while in vitro gametogenesis carries a promise to unravel the fundamental mechanisms of devastating genetic forms of infertility and to pave the way to a range of new therapies, the technique also raises a number of vexing legal and ethical questions that society should address before IVG becomes ready for prime-time clinical use in human patients.