Babies may one day be made with skin cells instead of a mother’s eggs after a breakthrough in biology. Scientists at the University of Bath have made healthy mice by fusing sperm with a chemically modified cell in a world first that may herald a new wave of advanced fertility treatments. For two centuries, experts have believed that it is impossible to create a foetus without a fertilised egg. The experiment is proof that this could be done with other kinds of cells, and possibly by melding the DNA from two skin cells. This might allow gay couples to have…

Source: The Times September 13, 2016 22:52 UTC