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For the first time, US researchers have turned skin cells into fertilizing eggs. How far is the method from a real application?
Luke O’Neill: Two men and a baby? Creating eggs from skin cells could give us first child with two biological dads
A breakthrough was announced last week in the world of fertility science. Scientists took skin cells from a human and used them to make egg cells. Yes, you read that right: skin made an egg. They then fertilised the egg with sperm by IVF and took it to the stage where it could be implanted into a womb.
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For the first time, US researchers have turned skin cells into fertilizing eggs. How far is the method from a real application?
In mice, it has already worked, and now US researchers have tried out humans: can we turn the DNA of our skin cells into fertilizing ova? The answer is: Yes, the experiment has succeeded to a large extent. Even the subsequent fertilization with human sperm has worked. Nevertheless, the researchers then came to their limits, which they would soon like to overcome. Researchers are transforming skin cells in egg cells around the nucleus of a skin c…
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