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Reproduction & Fertility · Recorded milestone

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Recorded year1992

Injecting a single sperm into an egg treats most male infertility.

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In vitro fertilisationRecorded · 1978enables

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Egg freezingRecorded · 2012enables
Mitochondrial donationRecorded · 2023enables
Human eggs made from skin cellsRecorded · 2025enables
Robotic IVF labsForecast · ~2028enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.