Artificial Meiosis and gamete production

[M0381U5]

Is it possible to generate a gamete artificially from a standard cell?

I Am interested in IVF protocols and the generation of an egg from a tissue sample.
and if a meiotic haploid nucleus could be transfered to a donor egg, and then fertilized, with standard IVF procedures. or any other procedures that would result in a gamete from a specific or general tissue sample.

[alextemplet]

http://www.biology-online.org/biology-forum/about14211.html

In the human biology forum, we discussed recent research that could make it possible to turn any cell into any other cell stem-cell style. This research is still in its early stages, but I don't see any reason why we couldn't turn, say, a skin cell into a testes or ovary cell and produce a gamete. If that isn't possible yet, it might be in the very near future.

[MrMistery]

it might be tricky though, cause you would have to artificially induce meiosis. I don't think it can be done right now. Maybe in the future....