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Published online 22 April 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040419-8
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Mouse created without father
Scientists turn egg cell into surrogate sperm.
Fromtime immemorial, making a mammalian baby has involved two essential ingredients: eggs and sperm. Now Japanese scientists have written men out of the reproduction rule-book, and created fatherless mice.
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