Eggcelsior!

Scientists have made a landmark breakthrough that enables the creation of viable human egg cells from a skin cell, new research claims.

The study, published in Nature Communications, detailed how US scientists created a human egg cell — also called an oocyte — by isolating the nucleus of a skin cell and implanting it into a donor egg which had no nucleus.

The process is considered a breakthrough in infertility for older women without eggs and introduces the revolutionary concept of a viable egg cell derived from male DNA.

This undated image provided by the Mitalipov Laboratory at Oregon Health & Science University shows a microscope image of a human egg that contains a nucleus taken from a skin cell. AP

“This would allow older women, or women without eggs for any reason (

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