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Turning Skin Cells Into Viable Human Eggs Could be a Milestone in Treating Infertility

The technique, still in its early stages, could eventually help people facing age, illness, or same-sex infertility become ...
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First Human Embryos Created Using Skin Cell DNA and Sperm

It is no longer science fiction: human embryos have now been made from DNA in skin cells that were fertilised with sperm, a move that redrafts the biological limits of reproduction. At an Oregon ...
The Economist

A new technique can turn a woman’s skin cells into eggs

First, they obtained egg cells from volunteers and removed those cells’ nuclei. They then harvested skin cells from other ...