As Amazo, merely an advanced robot, failed, the next approach would be to cross bio-mechanical material from Amazo's body with human ova and DNA, in order to obtain a cyborg being who would exhibit the best traits of both human and artificial life.
Currently Ovum operates as a standalone company, but remains a part of the Informa Group and has been aligned with Informa Telecoms & Media (ITM).
In 1995, the 'Orange County Register broke the story that Asch — then Chief of the University of California, Irvine's Center for Reproductive Health — and his two partners were misusing human embryos, and harvesting and transplanting human eggs without patient consent.