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Are human oocytes from stem cells next?

The generation of oocytes in a dish from mouse pluripotent cells may be difficult to replicate with human cells.

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Figure 1: Hikabe et al.1 succeeded in producing mouse oocytes entirely in vitro from stem cells.

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Smitz, J., Gilchrist, R. Are human oocytes from stem cells next?. Nat Biotechnol 34, 1247–1248 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3742

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