Viable offspring derived from single unfertilized mammalian oocytes

rf15

Isn't this kind of research illegal? Because the results usually are. (I say as someone who used to own marbled crayfish[1])

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbled_crayfish

photochemsyn

I remain hopeful...

> "The 28,000-year-old remains of a woolly mammoth, named 'Yuka', were found in Siberian permafrost. Here we recovered the less-damaged nucleus-like structures from the remains and visualised their dynamics in living mouse oocytes after nuclear transfer."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30858410/

alex-moon

Immediately imagining Strong Bad going "Don't need THIS any more" and slapping a nutsack out of the way a la https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/41-invisibility

Bang2Bay

f*k... Oh. we dont have to any more. :)

amateurCoder5

TLDR: transfer of 155 parthenogenetic embryos generated two live offspring. Both had body weight similar to that of controls at birth and survived to adulthood.

Seems like there are still a lot of unknowns in this process, so caution is warranted.

Georgelemental

(2022)

l1n

in mice.

dools

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