New scientific breakthrough could pave the way for two men to have biological babies together
The Guardian. Despite this, news of the research has prompted interest around the world.“This is a significant advance with significant potential applications,” Keith Latham, a developmental biologist at Michigan State University in East Lansing, told Nature.Although presented at yesterday’s seminar, Hayashi’s work has yet to be submitted to a journal for peer review.The work saw the male skin cells reprogrammed into a stem cell-like state.
Female cells have XX chromosome pairings. Males have XY. In this case, the male Y-chromosome was removed and replaced with an X-chromosome from another cell.
The cell then had the XX chromosome pairing.The cells were cultivated in a culture system designed to replicate the conditions inside a mouse ovary.The team was able to produce 600 embryos using this method.
