The team deleted the Y chromosome, duplicated the X chromosome, and then combined the two X's, permitting the stem cell to be programmed to become an egg.
, announced at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing at the Francis Crick Institute in London on Wednesday.The research, which involves turning male XY sex chromosomes into female XX ones, could not only help same-sex couples have a biological child in the future but also improve treatments for extreme forms of infertility.
"Hayashi's work is unpublished but fascinating. [Doing this on Humans] is harder than the mouse," Prof George Daley of Harvard Medical School, who is not involved in the research, told the. "We still don't understand enough of the unique biology of human gametogenesis to reproduce Hayashi's provocative work in mice"According to Prof Hayashi, the work is at a very early stage and cannot be used safely on humans at this point.
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