A new technique can turn a woman’s skin cells into eggs
But improved fertility treatment is still far away
MANY COUPLES struggle to conceive. In vitro fertilisation (IVF) can help some, but if the woman has no usable eggs to fertilise, they must either give up or use an egg donor. Researchers have therefore worked for years to create eggs for women who lack them. So far they have succeeded only in mice, but that could be about to change. In a paper just published in Nature Communications, a group of researchers report they have—albeit imperfectly—created fertilisable human eggs from skin cells.
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