Japanese scientists gave birth to mice from two fathers without the participation of a female

How are things in science? Apparently, the research process is underway full swing. For example, recently the Japanese scientist Katsuhiko Hayashi announced impressive achievement. He managed to create seven mice with two biological male parents, writes The Guardian. Hayashi and his a young team managed to create an egg from male cells for the first time skin, fertilize it and get offspring.



To put it bluntly, a man is a pair of XY chromosomes, and woman xx. Scientists have duplicated the male X chromosome and created cells with two Xs, which were turned into eggs, and then fertilized. AND this is the first time that healthy mammals have been created from male cells. The pups themselves looked healthy, had a normal duration life and, having matured, gave offspring. The research is still on early stage, but in the future it may help in the treatment of infertility in men and women. The results of the study were presented at the Third international summit on editing the human genome at the Institute Francis Crick in London

"We do not yet fully understand the unique biology of the human gametogenesis (the formation of sex cells) to reproduce the work in public," says Harvard Medical School professor George Daly.