{"id":83276,"date":"2018-10-04T07:02:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/human-immature-eggs-made-from-blood-cells-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2018-10-07T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:10:12","slug":"human-immature-eggs-made-from-blood-cells-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/human-immature-eggs-made-from-blood-cells-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Human Immature Eggs Made From Blood Cells for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-immature-eggs-made-from-blood-cells-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They were right. Last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2018\/09\/19\/science.aat1674\">writing in<\/a> <em>Science<\/em>, a Japanese team reported a formula that transforms human blood cells into immature eggs. With the help of an artificial womb made from mouse ovary cells, the human cells underwent changes to their DNA that mimics those in a 10-week-old, normal human egg.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting eggs are far from full-blown eggs, and they can\u2019t yet be fertilized to create human embryos.<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cthis cannot be denied as a spectacular next step,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2018\/09\/20\/game-changing-technique-create-babies-skin-cells-just-stepped-forward\/?utm_term=.ec8aee2c0423\">said<\/a> Dr. Eli Adashi at Brown University, who was not involved in the study. \u201cConsidering how difficult this has been in a human, [this new study] in a way broke the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/10\/02\/human-immature-eggs-made-from-blood-cells-for-the-first-time\/#sm.00011mvw2o16odqfpg41083fkgrer\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/10\/02\/human-immature-eggs-ma...1083fkgrer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were right. Last week, writing in Science, a Japanese team reported a formula that transforms human blood cells into immature eggs. With the help of an artificial womb made from mouse ovary cells, the human cells underwent changes to their DNA that mimics those in a 10-week-old, normal human egg. The resulting eggs are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83276","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83446,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83276\/revisions\/83446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}