{"id":4986,"date":"2016-11-04T11:44:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4986"},"modified":"2016-11-04T11:44:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:44:31","slug":"mouse-pups-born-out-of-lab-grown-eggs-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/mouse-pups-born-out-of-lab-grown-eggs-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouse pups born out of lab-grown eggs for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japanese researchers have successfully produced functional mouse eggs entirely in cell culture. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Katsuhiko Hayashi and colleagues generated mature egg cells using pluripotent stem cells derived from both embryos and adults. The team subjected the new egg cells to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in vitro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fertilization to develop embryos, which were then transferred into surrogate mice. Some of those pregnancies resulted in the birth of healthy and fertile mouse pups.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Orie Hikabe, Nobuhiko Hamazaki, Go Nagamatsu, Yayoi Obata, Yuji Hirao, Norio Hamada, So Shimamoto, Takuya Imamura, Kinichi Nakashima, Mitinori Saitou &amp; Katsuhiko Hayashi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Katsuhiko Hayashi, Fukuoka, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature20104.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in <em>Nature<\/em> on October 17, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese researchers have successfully produced functional mouse eggs entirely in cell culture. For the first time,\u00a0Katsuhiko Hayashi and colleagues generated mature egg cells using pluripotent stem cells derived from both embryos and adults. The team subjected the new egg cells to in vitro fertilization to develop embryos, which were then transferred into surrogate mice. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[113,2646,2645,1288],"class_list":["post-4986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biology","tag-in-vitro-fertilization","tag-pluripotent-stem-cells","tag-stem-cells"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1iq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5070,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions\/5070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}