Hacker News with Generative AI: Reproduction

The Battlefield Is Everywhere (doomsdaymachines.net)
The “Proximity Argument,” the revolution in our planetary spatial relations, is forceful enough intellectually to match the horrendous situation. “Are we in a biological crisis of existence?” Yes! “How can we prove that?” Because there are no longer any safe interiors in which our babies can survive the next war. The weapons are up. Reproduction will be impossible. The battlefield is everywhere. Therefore World War III is treason — treason to our species, to say nothing of our nations.
Epigenetic inheritance of diet-induced and sperm-borne mitochondrial RNAs (nature.com)
Apart from Mendelian inheritance, fathers use alternative routes for intergenerational information transfer. One of these is a complex, dynamic and environment-sensitive pool of sncRNAs that are stored in mature spermatozoa1, delivered to the oocytes at fertilization9, and influence embryonic development10,11 and adult phenotypes1,2,3,4,5,6,7,11.
Live imaging of ovulation in action reveals three distinct phases in mice (phys.org)
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences have developed a live imaging method that reveals the process of ovulation in unprecedented detail.
Our son died. Now we can use his sperm to have a grandchild (bbc.com)
A couple in India have said they are "delighted" after a court ordered a hospital to hand over the frozen semen sample of their dead son to them so they could have a grandchild through surrogacy.
Uterus transplant trial ends with bundles of joy (cosmosmagazine.com)
Human reproduction comes at the expense of faster aging and a shorter life (biorxiv.org)
Researchers find no evidence that sperm counts are dropping (medicalxpress.com)
An American's fierce fight to reproduce sculptures of the Rodin Museum for free (linforme.com)