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Published online 27 September 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020923-14
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Reproductive transplants push fertility frontiers.
It's the closest a rat has come to giving birth to a litter of mice.
The rat grew mouse eggs from which five pups were born to a mouse surrogate mother.
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