The future of human fertility? Scientists create human eggs using skin cells
The process, which would carry significant safety concerns, involves removing the nucleus from a woman's skin cell and inserting it into an egg, or oocyte.
Prof Josef Hanna demonstrates the process he and his team of scientists used to develop models of early-stage human embryos without using an egg, sperm or womb, offering a glimpse into the first weeks of embryonic development, in a laboratory at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel S(photo credit: AMIR COHEN/REUTERS)ByREUTERS
