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The mouse that roared: Virgin Birth! Scientists' breakthrough raises prospect of fatherless babies.(News)
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April 22, 2004| Author:
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Byline: Steve Connor
A MOUSE has been created in the laboratory by a technique that does away with the need for males in reproduction, a breakthrough that raises the prospect of fatherless babies.
The mouse was generated from two unfertilised eggs and its birth has demonstrated for the first time that it is possible for mammals to be born by the "virgin birth" phenomenon of parthenogenesis.
Scientists said the mouse developed normally to adulthood and had offspring of its own by normal sexual reproduction, showing parthenogenesis could work on warm-blooded mammals, ...
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