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By Jonah McKeown, National Catholic Register, October 31, 2025
Jonah McKeown Jonah McKeown is a Register staff writer. He previously was a staff writer and podcast producer for Catholic News Agency. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has worked as a writer, as a producer for public radio, and as a videographer. He is based in St. Louis.
This process essentially creates a ‘three-parent embryo.’
Regarding the conception of human children: What if mothers could be removed from the equation?
It’s a thought experiment that points to an idea so preposterous and unnatural that it seems almost incoherent. But researchers at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland published a paper Sept. 30 chronicling a process that could lead to exactly that — human eggs created from other human cells, such as skin cells, rather than produced naturally by a woman’s body.
The research presents the first proof-of-concept of a method of manipulating skin and other human cells to mimic oocytes — eggs — through a process the researchers have termed mitomeiosis, a variant of a long-heralded process called in vitro gametogenesis (IVG). …
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