{"id":164353,"date":"2023-05-21T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T03:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/first-healthy-mice-with-two-dads-and-no-moms-born-in-japan"},"modified":"2023-05-26T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T01:50:00","slug":"first-healthy-mice-with-two-dads-and-no-moms-born-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/first-healthy-mice-with-two-dads-and-no-moms-born-in-japan","title":{"rendered":"First healthy mice with two dads \u2014 and no moms \u2014 born in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-healthy-mice-with-two-dads-and-no-moms-born-in-japan3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-00717-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">healthy, fertile mouse pups<\/a> from the DNA of two adult males \u2014 no female DNA required.<\/p>\n<p>While the research is currently only a proof of concept and has yet to be peer-reviewed, the team behind the process thinks it could translate to people \u2014 meaning two men could potentially have biological children together one day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reproduction 2.0:<\/strong> For nearly all of humanity\u2019s existence, reproduction has required <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/science\/sperm-and-pregnancy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sperm<\/a> from one man and an egg from one woman \u2014 put the two together in a welcoming womb, and nine months later, you have a baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have created healthy, fertile mouse pups from the DNA of two adult males \u2014 no female DNA required. While the research is currently only a proof of concept and has yet to be peer-reviewed, the team behind the process thinks it could translate to people \u2014 meaning two men could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164607,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164353\/revisions\/164607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}