Editing Reproduction (section)

==Same-sex==
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{{Original research section|date=April 2021}} Scientific research is currently investigating the possibility of same-sex procreation, which would produce offspring with equal genetic contributions from either two females or two males.<ref name = "Kissin_2019">{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=dIOWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR10 |title=Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance |last1=Kissin |first1=Dmitry M. |last2=Adamson |first2=G. David |last3=Chambers |first3=Georgina |last4= DeGeyter |first4=Christian | name-list-style = vanc |year=2019|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-49858-6 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.samesexprocreation.com/timeline.htm |title=Timeline of same-sex procreation scientific developments |publisher=samesexprocreation.com |access-date=2008-01-31 |archive-date=2011-02-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208053033/http://samesexprocreation.com/timeline.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Segers |first1=Seppe |last2=Mertes |first2=Heidi |last3=Pennings |first3=Guido |last4=de Wert |first4=Guido |last5=Dondorp |first5=Wybo |title=Using stem cell-derived gametes for same-sex reproduction: an alternative scenario |journal=Journal of Medical Ethics |date=2017 |volume=43 |issue=10 |pages=688–691 |doi=10.1136/medethics-2016-103863 |jstor=26535499 |pmid=28122990 |s2cid=35387886  |issn=0306-6800|url=https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/1d0a93d6-7a0f-462c-9532-fef16e1ea0f4 }}</ref> The obvious approaches, subject to a growing amount of activity, are [[female sperm]] and [[male egg]]s. In 2004, by altering the function of a few genes involved with imprinting, other Japanese scientists combined two mouse eggs to produce daughter mice<ref>{{Cite news |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=April 22, 2004 |title=Japanese scientists produce mice without using sperm |publisher=Sarasota Herald-Tribune |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nUIgAAAAIBAJ&pg=6950,1352704&dq=japanese+scientists+combine+two+mouse+eggs+to+produce+daughter+mice&hl=en |access-date=November 19, 2020 |archive-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723112403/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nUIgAAAAIBAJ&pg=6950,1352704&dq=japanese+scientists+combine+two+mouse+eggs+to+produce+daughter+mice&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> and in 2018 Chinese scientists created 29 female mice from two female mice mothers but were unable to produce viable offspring from two father mice. Researches noted that there is little chance these techniques would be applied to humans in the near future.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/no-father-necessary-as-mice-are-created-with-two-mothers-2vskf8w58|title=No father necessary as mice are created with two mothers|last=Blakely|first=Rhys|date=2018-10-12|work=The Times|access-date=2018-10-12|language=en|issn=0140-0460|url-access=subscription|archive-date=2018-10-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012015608/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/no-father-necessary-as-mice-are-created-with-two-mothers-2vskf8w58|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Li|first1=Zhi-Kun|last2=Wang|first2=Le-Yun|last3=Wang|first3=Li-Bin|last4=Feng|first4=Gui-Hai|last5=Yuan|first5=Xue-Wei|last6=Liu|first6=Chao|last7=Xu|first7=Kai|last8=Li|first8=Yu-Huan|last9=Wan|first9=Hai-Feng|date=2018-10-01|title=Generation of Bimaternal and Bipaternal Mice from Hypomethylated Haploid ESCs with Imprinting Region Deletions|journal=Cell Stem Cell|volume=23|issue=5|pages=665–676.e4|doi=10.1016/j.stem.2018.09.004|pmid=30318303|issn=1934-5909|doi-access=free}}</ref>