Katsuhiko Hayashi

Biologist

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Why you should listen

Katsuhiko Hayashi is a professor in the department of genome biology at Osaka University’s Graduate School of Medicine, where he leads the team that created mice with two dads, generating viable mouse eggs from the skin cells of two biologically male parents. He is a pioneer of in vitro gametogenesis (IVG), an exciting, experimental and ethically fraught field that could bring species back from the brink of extinction and see the development of "artificial" human embryos.

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Katsuhiko Hayashi

A mouse with two dads — and a new frontier for biology

Posted Nov 2024

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In Session 9 of TED2024, great minds working on world-shifting innovations shared their work, from a biologist who raised mice with two dads to a computer scientist with a more democratic crowdfunding model. Whether at home or on the global stage, these big ideas have the potential to shape what’s possible. The event: Talks from […]