{"id":171293,"date":"2025-09-30T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171293\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:28:08","slug":"scientists-find-way-to-fertilise-eggs-made-from-genetic-material-of-skin-cells-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171293\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find way to fertilise eggs made from genetic material of skin cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ying Cheong, a professor of reproductive medicine and honorary consultant in reproductive medicine and surgery at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/university-of-southampton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of Southampton<\/a>, said: \u201cFor the first time, scientists have shown that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/dna\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DNA<\/a> from ordinary body cells can be placed into an egg, activated, and made to halve its chromosomes, mimicking the special steps that normally create eggs and sperm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ying Cheong, a professor of reproductive medicine and honorary consultant in reproductive medicine and surgery at the University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[551,916,22461,4912,90,14607,56,54,55,76958,55073],"class_list":["post-171293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-dna","tag-genetics","tag-humans","tag-ivf","tag-science","tag-scientists","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-university-of-edinburgh","tag-university-of-southampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}