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Can “designer babies” be far away?

Saturday, October 6, 2012 15:10
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A.P.’s Malcom Ritter reports that “Scientists have turned mouse skin cells into eggs that produced baby mice — a technique that, if successfully applied to humans, could someday allow women to stop worrying about the ticking of their biological clocks and perhaps even help couples create “designer babies.”

The mouse in the photo above was born from an egg that was produced from a skin cell. She is tending to her offspring, which were conceived normally. (Katsuhiko Hayashi)



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