For the first time, scientists have created baby mice from two males.
growing them and treating them with a drug, they converted male mouse stem cells into female cells and produced functional egg cells.. About 1% of the embryos – 7 out of 630 – grew into live mouse pups.
First, scientists took skin cells from the tails of male mice and transformed them into “induced pluripotent stem cells.”In a commentary published alongside the Nature study, Laird and her colleague, Jonathan Bayerl, said the work “opens up new avenues in reproductive biology and fertility research” for animals and people.
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