Tag: ovarian cells

For decades, IVF has felt like medicine stuck in amber—expensive, exhausting, and punishingly hard on women’s bodies. Hormone injections, egg harvesting, endless cycles of hope and disappointment: the emotional toll has always outweighed the technological progress.

Now, a young biotech named Gameto is dragging fertility treatment into the 21st century with a radical shift: maturing eggs outside the body using lab-grown ovarian support cells built from stem cells. It’s not science fiction—it’s already produced a live human birth.