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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ian Sample Science editor

Scientists move step closer to making IVF eggs from skin cells

Microscope image of IVF procedure
The radical procedure. which may take a decade to perfect and approve in humans, could revolutionise IVF. Photograph: nevodka/Alamy

Scientists are a step closer to making IVF eggs from patients’ skin cells after adapting the procedure that created Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, more than two decades ago.

The work raises the prospect of older women being able to have children who share their DNA, and to overcome common forms of infertility caused by a woman’s eggs becoming damaged by disease or cancer treatment.

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