New hope for breakthrough fertility technique that could help same-sex couples
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) scientists have released new research that could help some LGBTQIA+ couples have their own biological children. The new technique, called in vitro gametogenesis (IVG), involves turning a skin cell into a viable egg. OHSU scientists took a skin cell from a mouse and removed the nucleus before implanting it into a donor egg before manipulating the nucleus to lose half of the chromosomes. This reduction of the chromosomes is the main differentiation to cloning and how DNA from two donors can be present, compared…
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