Lab-made eggs may cure infertility

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3096, 2016, pág. 8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Fertile, mature eggs have been created from mouse skin cells in the lab for the first time. The feat suggests that the same could soon be achieved in humans, opening up the possibility of new fertility treatments, and the potential for two men to genetically father a baby together. Katsuhiko Hayashi at Kyushu University in Fukuoka Japan, and his team have been trying to mimic egg development in the lab. The group had some success in 2012, turning mouse skin cells into primary germ cells--a kind of immature eggcell in its early stages of development. But to finish developing, these cells had to be re-implanted into a mouse's ovary. Now, the team has fully matured egg cells in a dish