Scientists fully grow human eggs in lab

Updated February 9 2018 - 12:03pm, first published 11:54am
US and British scientists have fully grown human eggs in a laboratory for the first time (File).
US and British scientists have fully grown human eggs in a laboratory for the first time (File).

Scientists have succeeded for the first time in growing human eggs in a laboratory from the earliest stages in ovarian tissue all the way to full maturity - a step that had previously been taken in mice.

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