Babies 'made without mothers' ...

The injection of sperm into a parthenogenote mouse embryo, pictured. If injecting sperm into a mammalian parthenogenote can produce offspring, theoretically at least it should be possible to achieve the same result using mitotic cells not derived from eggs
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Babies made without mothers 'will come sooner than we think', leading scientists warn after study discovered how to make embryos from skin cells

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