Some key statistics before I go into a personal example:
Male infertility is a factor in 30 – 50% percent of couples trying to get pregnant a second time
Nearly 50% of men dealing with infertility have low sperm counts as the primary factor. This condition is considered to be the most common cause of infertility
https://www.azuravascularcare.com/infovaricocele/male-infertility-statistics/
My wife and I are doing IVF due to my male infertility issues. We're in our mid to late 30s, and it's been taxing for both of us, especially my wife. For the first retrieval they extracted 15 eggs from her and for this recent one it was 12 eggs. Both times we we're left with zero viable blastocysts. With each retrieval she needs to go through a normal cycle before we can try all over again, which is 60 days between each attempt. I won't even go into the slurry of medications she takes and injects.
Looking at the hunger games thread, which lists the experiences of other Redditors, it seems that our case isn't rare:
To top it off, the PGS chromosomal testing costs $4K EACH time. We can freeze them, thaw the bulk, biospy, send off, and refreeze, but we don't even have enough day five blastocysts to make it worth it yet.
This all seems somewhat wasteful for me. With how many cases of IVF stem from male infertility, it seems like it's ideal to clone these eggs and then continue to inject them with various sperm till one is successful. Offering this would be a HUGE selling point for any new IVF clinic. There seems to be a lack of vision here and it's time for someone to disrupt the marketplace.
Ten years ago they created a human egg from a skin cell:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13198-first-cloned-human-embryo-created-from-skin-cell/
Five years ago they cloned an entire EMBRYO:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/05/15/184223277/how-scientists-cloned-human-embryos
I'm willing to bet we've been able to clone an egg for just as long.
TL;DR
The culture at IVF clinics revolves around women, despite men often being the source of the problem. IVF is a painful, time-consuming, costly process, and often times it's the male's fertility that's the sole issue.
It would be great to be able to clone eggs from one retrieval and inject those clones with sperm instead of having women repeatedly go through the same painful demoralizing stim/retrieval cycles over and over again. With how many cases of IVF stem from male infertility, it seems like it's ideal to clone these eggs and then continue to inject them with various sperm till one is successful. Having a solution to this issue would be a HUGE selling point for any new IVF clinic.
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