Reproductive babble

Imagine, if you would, that it is five hundred years in the future, and you are a ridiculously wealthy and influential person trying to start a family with the love of your life. Both of you are men. You have a female relative willing to carry the baby, and donate an egg.

By what means would it be possible for a child to have the genes of both fathers? This does not have to WORK, mind you, I just want a reasonably good gobbledygook explanation. The lady relative can be the baby's genetic mother, or not, as is convenient.

Help me out. I did OK in high school biology, but I haven't got a clue how to talk a good game about this.

And I'm positing that they know how to do this, but not prevent post-partum psychosis. How twisted am I? Sigh.

Remove the DNA from the donor egg, replace it with DNA from the sperm cell of one of the fathers (a sperm cell containing an X-chromosome, preferably), fertilize with a sperm cell from the other father as normal.

Five hundred years down the line, I'd expect that to be pretty doable if civilization doesn't collapse in the intervening period.

Thanks, that sounds workable.

Have someone try to make a clone of himself. The other guy is clipping his toenails at the same time. A nail accidentally falls into the DNA acceptance door and the contamination combines the two strands together. Files done. Congratulations, you've got a male!

No, wait, that was just an old episode of Pinky and the Brain. It'll never work.

There was an article on taking stem cells and using them to produce genetic material suitable for conception. I don't remember where I found it, but if you search for gay couples having children, you should find it.

Given today's technology, along with five hundred years of advancement, it should be fairly simple to do it.

Since males determine the genetic gender, you would need to decide whether you want a boy or a girl. You would select a sperm cell with the appropriate X or Y chromosomes and put them into an 'empty' egg. You would then take the other chromosomes from the sperm and put them into the same egg. The egg would then be implanted into the woman.

There might be some technical tweaking to make sure that they combine when they get into the egg, but that should be solved in the next five hundred years.