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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Laura Ungar

For 1st time, scientists create mice with cells from 2 males

Katsuhiko Hayashi

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.

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