To produce haploid gametes, germ cells undergo a specialized division cycle, meiosis (Fig. 1), which reduces the number of chromosomes from two sets, one maternally and one paternally derived, to a ...

First, they obtained egg cells from volunteers and removed those cells’ nuclei. They then harvested skin cells from other volunteers, cultured these and let individual cells from the culture fuse with ...

Scientists created the eggs using DNA from adult skin cells, a step that could someday potentially lead to new ways to treat infertility and enable gay couples to have genetically related children.

Purpose: We evaluated whether the association of socioeconomic risk factors for trisomy 21 differed by type of maternal meiotic error. Methods: We determined meiotic ...

Researchers have now managed to create human eggs from skin cells. The development could help millions of people around the world who are unable to have children – those suffering from infertility, ...

Scientists are working to create human eggs in a laboratory dish, but the process is proving to be more challenging than expected.

US scientists have created embryo from human skin cells for the first time.A team scientist has turned DNA from human skin cells into “functional” eggs, which were able to be ...

A Nature study reveals how hidden DNA repair safeguards protect chromosomes for decades, explaining infertility, miscarriages, and conditions like Down syndrome ...

The technique, still in its early stages, could eventually help people facing age, illness, or same-sex infertility become biological parents.

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Pioneering embryologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov reported that his team has encountered hurdles in creating functional human eggs in the lab ...