Scientific Breakthrough Could Allow Two Men To Create A Baby, University of Edinburgh Study

JAPANESE scientists say they have grown mouse eggs entirely in the lab, then fertilised them to yield fertile offspring, a scientific first cautiously hailed by experts in human reproduction.

The technique — which involved coaxing stem cells into becoming mature eggs — was still much too risky and controversial to be reproduced in humans, commentators said.

“This is the first report of anyone being able to develop fully mature and fertilisable eggs in a laboratory setting right through from the earliest stages of oocyte (immature egg) development,” commented Richard Anderson of the University of Edinburgh’s MRC Centre for Reproductive Health.

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