Creating a working ovary for a mouse with a 3D printer, female scientists further advanced the technology of creating humanity without humanity, and that could be quite a useful tool for growing human beings in various locales beyond Earth.
Automatic computer directed reproduction may be just a few steps away as progress is being made on synthetic wombs as well. The male contribution freezes well. Manufacturing female components has so far been the main obsticle to setting up gene-repairing and synthesizing human factories producing best-designed for environments experimental human vectors.
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