Early lab experiments show potential for fertility treatment but scientists warn it is distant. Photo: Matt Turner/AAP PHOTOS

Human skin cells may one day be used to create functional human eggs in a step toward helping women have their own genetic children when their natural eggs are dysfunctional, according to very early lab experiments reported in a scientific journal.

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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, from which the nucleus has been removed, scientists detai

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