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The Daily Free Press

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EDITORIAL: Laboratory sperm could help male infertility, but stay cautious

EDITORIAL: Laboratory sperm could help male infertility, but stay cautious

Editors February 26, 2016

Baby-making just moved from the bedroom to the laboratory. Chinese scientists have turned an embryonic stem cell into a primitive sperm, known as a spermatid, and used it to fertilize a mouse egg, the...

The United Kingdom’s House of Commons voted on Feb. 3 to allow research on mitochondrial DNA replacement therapy that will replace mutated mitochondria from a mother’s egg cell with that of healthy donor. GRAPHIC BY ERICA MAYBAUM AND SHIVANI PATEL/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

To treat mitochondrial disease, mothers know best

Conner Reed February 12, 2015

If having a child meant hurting them, how far would people go to fix it? Science has known for a long time that everything a living being is boils down to long sequences encoded in DNA, passed down...

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