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Mice with cells from 2 males

April 6 , 2023 630 days 486 0
  • For the first time, scientists have created baby mice from two males.
  • They took skin cells from the tails of male mice and transformed them into “induced pluripotent stem cells’’.
  • Then, they converted male mouse stem cells into female cells and produced functional egg cells.
  • Finally, they fertilized those eggs and implanted the embryos into female mice.
  • About 1% of the embryos – 7 out of 630 – grew into live mouse pups.
  • So, the applicability of this technique to humans is very uncertain.

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