Scientists from Shanghai are developing a method for growing mammalian offspring from a single egg
It is still very difficult to carry out the “virgin fertilization” procedure on a large scale in practice – it is impossible to edit with equal efficiency all the regions in the genome responsible for suppressing part of the genome, that is, for genomic imprinting. There is a high probability that at least one of them will not be “corrected” – and this immediately reduces the viability of the resulting new organism.