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Healthy mice born from lab-grown eggs
short by Satyaki Das / on Tuesday, 18 October, 2016
Japanese scientists claim to have created healthy mice from lab-grown eggs using a sample of mouse skin cells. The team reprogrammed the mature cells back into immature ones, and grew them into egg cells. Then the eggs were fertilised using artificially grown sperm and put into adult female mice's wombs. The newborns from this technique went to have babies themselves.
read more at The Guardian