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"Mice with two fathers have been born—and have survived to adulthood—following a complex set of experiments by a team in China.

Zhi-Kun Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and his colleagues used CRISPR to create the mice, using a novel approach to target genes that normally need to be inherited from both male and female parents. They hope to use the same approach to create primates with two dads. "