Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have accomplished a unique proof of concept to treat infertility by turning ...
The process, which would carry significant safety concerns, involves removing the nucleus from a woman's skin cell and inserting it into an egg, or oocyte.
More work needs to be done to create viable human embryos, but the method might someday be used in IVF to help infertile people and male couples.
In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm ...
Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop lab-grown eggs or sperm to one day help people conceive.