On Monday, TV3 premiered In vitro, a series that takes place in a fertility clinic. An innovative idea that, inevitably, forces a balance between comedy and drama. On one hand, the humor typical of work environments and everything related to sex and the intimacy of a couple, and on the other, the suffering that surrounds the difficulties of conceiving a child. Added to this are the human miseries surrounding expectations about offspring and the female universe in complex hormonal situations. A common aspect in many contemporary fictions also emerges: the normalization of an immaturity and infantilization of the characters that enhances the drama of any circumstance, however insubstantial it may be. All in all, a very fertile context for building fiction. In vitro asks, or rather, begs the viewer for a good dose of condescension regarding plausibility. One thing is the reality of reproductive processes and another, very different, is for the characters' actions to be hardly credible: a researcher tricking music students into donating eggs that will satisfy a pianist's longings, or a devoted wife trying to put her husband's semen into a jar, without him noticing, with a furtive straw in his law office. Fried eggs and bananas will become symbolic elements to enhance this zygotic breeding ground. zygotic.

A group of researchers from the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), In collaboration with Dexeus University Hospital, the team has recorded for the first time how a human embryo implants in the uterus. This is a microscopic process that occurs in the body of an adult, so it had never been observed before. "It was like a black box whose inside we were finally able to see," says Samuel Ojosnegros, director of the study.

Ten years after the UK legalized the possibility of using genetic material from three people to obtain a healthy embryo and avoid life-threatening mitochondrial problems, scientists at Newcastle University conducting the first clinical trial of this technique have confirmed the birth of eight healthy babies using this method. Just over two years ago, the UK's Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) confirmed that until April 20, 2023 there were five, those born of two mothers and a father, within the framework of this trial.