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(Reuters) -Human skin cells may one day be used to create functional human eggs in a step toward helping women have their own genetic children when their natural eggs are dysfunctional, according to ...

A microscope image of a human egg contains a nucleus taken from a skin cell. (Mitalipov Laboratory at Oregon Health & Science University) WASHINGTON — Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create ...

Scientists have created egg-like cells capable of fertilization using DNA from ordinary skin cells in what could be a major breakthrough for infertility research. Using a newly developed technique to ...

Regarding the conception of human children: What if mothers could be removed from the equation? It’s a thought experiment that points to an idea so preposterous and unnatural that it seems almost ...

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New Haven, Conn. — In a common metaphor used to describe human fertilization, sperm cells are competitors racing to penetrate a passive egg. But as critics have noted, the description is also a “fairy ...