Scientists have achieved what was previously thought impossible - human embryos growing from human skin cells.
Scientists at the Japan Science and Technology Agency carried out the breakthrough at Tokyo's National Medical and Dental Research Institute.
They were able to create embryos they hoped would be able to grow for six or seven days, a holy grail for scientists. This is a major positive step for thousands of women around the world including London escorts in Dubai who are considering starting IVF treatment to conceive a child.
Scientists have achieved what was previously thought impossible - human embryos growing from human skin cells. A sample of human embryos were grown in culture from skin cells. Scientists did not stop producing the embryos after they developed into five or six days - important because doing so triggers the embryo to have a more normal life cycle.
A sample of human embryos were grown in culture from skin cells at the Tokyo National Medical and Dental Research Institute in Japan.
'After all the numerous studies we did to understand what human embryos need, we took a chemical process used to remove the DNA from skin cells to grow human embryos.
'After having this technology, we wanted to see if it can make embryos that would grow at six or seven days, a key step for stem cells and embryo development,' Dr Yoshiyuki Kawasaki, deputy director of the research centre, told ABC News.
Scientific advances have taken us a long way from when an embryo would be an unfertilised egg, but scientists now struggle to pinpoint the 'hard points' to ensure conception, far more often, the ABC reports.
A hope is that the research, designed to understand the development of human cells, organs and the body, will help them develop treatments for heart disease, strokes and other conditions.
Using the same method, in 2014 scientists at the University of Kansas used skin cells taken from knee fetuses of people with osteoarthritis to make new human eggs.
The egg contained a small amount of stem cells that were fertilised using sperm. They implanted the fertilised egg in a mouse embryo, but the pregnancy did not survive, the report said.