Scientists from the prestigious British University of Cambridge managed to create primitive forms of artificial sperm and egg cells based on the skin of a man, reports the London newspaper "Guardian" today.
"In the future, researchers may be able to produce germ cells genetically identical to the cells of future parents," the paper said.
The scientists made the primitive forms of spermatozoa and egg cells from the skin of a man because it can make both male and female gametes, which is not possible on the basis of a woman's skin, which does not possess the male hormose Y for spermatozoa.
Scientists from Cambridge are still in the early stages of experiments on laboratory animals and it is not yet known whether the new, artificial gametes could be fertilized.
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