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Biological Babies For Same-Sex Couples Could Become A Reality – And Soon

This marks a massive breakthrough in fertility treatment and would give same gender couples the chance to have children with both their DNA

Good news for couples that want to start a family – incredible advancements in fertility keep coming.

First, MPs voted in favour of the creation of three-people babies and now researchers think they may’ve worked out a way to create babies from the cells of same-sex couples.

Great news for same-sex couples [Rex]
Great news for same-sex couples [Rex]



If this is the case, same-sex couples may be able to have a baby that has DNA from both of them – rather than from just one of them and a donor.

And it could all be possible in as little as two years.

A stem cell research breakthrough has shown that it’s possible to make a baby using the skin cells of two adults of the same gender.

Researchers from Cambridge University teamed up with researchers from Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science and paired stem cell lines from embryos with the skin from different adults to make the discovery.

The experts compared the engineered stem cells with human cells from aborted fetuses to make sure they had identical characteristics and currently the team has created new germ-cell lines from 10 different donors.

The breakthrough could mean same-sex couples could have a baby with both their DNA [Rex]
The breakthrough could mean same-sex couples could have a baby with both their DNA [Rex]



“We have succeeded in the first and most important step of this process, which is to show we can make these very early human stem cells in a dish,” Azim Surani, professor of physiology and reproduction at Cambridge, told the Sunday Times.

The researchers say this has showed them that it’s possible to make human egg and sperm cells from the skin of two adults of the same sex.

It’s the first time the method has been tested on humans – previously it had only been tried on mice.

The findings has already had lots of interest from same-sex couples.“It has already caused interest from gay groups because of the possibility of making egg and sperm cells from parents of the same sex,” says Jacob Hanna, the specialist leading the project in Israel.


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