Scientists have created baby mice with two fathers for the first time by turning male mouse stem cells into female cells in a lab.
This raises the distant possibility of doing the same for people - although experts caution that very few mouse embryos were born alive and no one knows whether the same technique would work in human stem cells.
The pups appeared to grow normally and were able to become parents themselves in the usual way, research leader Katsuhiko Hayashi of Kyushu University and Osaka University in Japan told fellow scientists at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing last week. “And it might even provide a template for enabling more people,” such as male same-sex couples, “to have biological children, while circumventing the ethical and legal issues of donor eggs,” they wrote.
Laird also said scientists need to be mindful of the mutations and errors that may be introduced in a culture dish before using stem cells to make eggs.
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