Breakthrough fertility research at OHSU criticized by anti

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon Health and Science University has published new research that could represent a game-changer for fertility treatments. At the same time, an anti-abortion group is raising concerns about the school's research methods, calling them "disturbing."

In this early iteration of a scientific breakthrough, OHSU researchers managed to make human skin cells behave like egg cells. They were then fertilized and began developing into human embryos.

In typical human reproduction, a sperm cell from a male fertilizes an egg cell from a female. Each of those cells contain 23 chromosomes, combining for 46, and creating a new cell called a zygote. The cell then begins to split and multiply in a process called mitosis, becoming an embryo.

Eventually, the cells develop into a human fet