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Is it possible to create human oocytes from skin cells in a dish?
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[QUOTE="Ygggdrasil, post: 5813122, member: 124113"] An even bigger advance with broad social implications would be the ability to produce oocytes in culture. One could imagine taking skin cells, reprogramming them into https://stemcells.nih.gov/info/Regenerative_Medicine/2006Chapter10.htm, then differentiating those stem cells into oocytes that could be used for IVF. It would reduce the need for invasive surgeries for egg donation and could potentially allow women to avoid pressures of their "biological clock" (i.e. increased risk of chromosomal defects with increasing age of the mother). Although such technology is still far away, there are advances being made toward this goal: [URL]http://www.pnas.org/content/113/32/9021[/URL] [URL]https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v539/n7628/full/nature20104.html[/URL] [URL]http://www.nature.com/news/mouse-eggs-made-from-skin-cells-in-a-dish-1.20817[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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