{"id":11706,"date":"2025-06-24T21:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/11706\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T21:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:04:08","slug":"scientists-have-created-healthy-fertile-mice-with-two-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/11706\/","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":3,"featured_media":11707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[159,12490,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-11706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-science-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114740373961627598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}