{"id":210885,"date":"2025-06-24T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/210885\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:57:09","slug":"scientists-have-created-healthy-fertile-mice-with-two-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/210885\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have created healthy, fertile mice with two fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">THE CONVENTIONAL way of making babies is no secret: a father produces a sperm which, when it comes into contact with a mother\u2019s egg, gives rise to an embryo containing genetic material from both parents. The process is popular but not universally accessible; same-sex couples cannot produce biological children together. Scientists have therefore long sought more ambitious recipes, especially ones that remove the need for either parent. They have enjoyed some success: mice with two mothers and no fathers were reported in 2004. But creating animals with two fathers and no mother has proved much harder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE CONVENTIONAL way of making babies is no secret: a father produces a sperm which, when it comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3846],"tags":[267,70,229,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-210885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-genetics","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-science-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114739402763139084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}