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Two-mother conception.


Will lesbian couples ever be able to conceive a child together? If researchers in the United Kingdom are successful, they might.

Scientists from the U.K.'s Newcastle University were recently given government approval to create a human embryo with genetic material from two mothers. The research, intended to prevent the transmission of genetic defects, does not involve human cloning, they said. It would use normal in vitro fertilization in vitro fertilization (vē`trō, vĭ`trō), technique for conception of a human embryo outside the mother's body. Several ova, or eggs, are removed from the mother's body and placed in special laboratory culture dishes (Petri dishes); sperm from the father are then added, or in many cases a sperm is injected directly into procedures, but before the sperm and egg fused, the components of a nucleus from a human embryo created by a man and a woman would be implanted into the unfertilized egg.
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUUK
Date:Oct 25, 2005
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