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Stem cells bear eggs

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Researchers have coaxed cultured embryonic stem cells to develop into eggs that then give rise to normal offspring. The discovery should help to decode the molecular basis of gamete formation and might lead to treatments for infertility.

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Figure 1: Oogenesis from cultured stem cells.

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  1. USA. They are also at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Sihem Cheloufi and Konrad Hochedlinger are at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, Harvard University, Cambridge.,

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Cheloufi, S., Hochedlinger, K. Stem cells bear eggs. Nature 491, 535–536 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/491535a

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