What’s the point of this research? Mice do fine making babies the natural way, often in my garage. Then the catz, who also manage to reproduce without Petri dishes, come by to snack, and the natural world progresses as it always has ...
This research proves that it would be possible to produce viable human offspring from non-reproductive cells such as skin or muscle cells. Then, couples who are sterile / infertile could have genetically-related children.
Another possibility: human-machine hybrids created from mechanical / electrical parts and human body cells (somatic / non-reproductive) thus bypassing ethical objections and creating artificial humans / humaniods, designed for specific tasks.