Biotech Issue- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

[Drashner1]

Interesting - I'd say that this might have definite application within the setting, probably from fairly early in the timeline. There are actually some technical issues even with the mice apparently and possibly more with humans. But given enough time, and assuming something else didn't come along to either replace or totally derail the research, some level of this sort of thing might be done.

I'm not sure it would have application for growing the population really fast, since if you have interstellar travel and colonization ability, you almost certainly have automation advanced enough to make people largely superfluous.

My 2c worth,

Todd