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Researchers make breakthrough after experimenting with mice
news.com.au ^ | 2-26-2016 | Nick McDermott

Posted on 02/26/2016 6:07:27 AM PST by Citizen Zed

Sperm has been created in a lab for the first time, raising the prospect of women never needing men again.

The breakthrough was made by Chinese IVF researchers experimenting with mice, The Sun reports.

They took stem cells from rodent embryos and used chemicals to transform them into primitive sperm. It was then used to fertilise eggs that produced baby mice. The healthy offspring went on to have kids of their own.

Jiahao Sha, of Nanjing Medical University, said the technique "holds tremendous promise".

He said: " If proven to be safe and effective in humans, our platform could potentially generate fully functional sperm for artificial insemination or IVF." Experts here hailed it a "mammoth" achievement.

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I predict this story will be proved false.
1 posted on 02/26/2016 6:07:27 AM PST by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed
It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.
2 posted on 02/26/2016 6:11:10 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Trump! Trump! Trump!)
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To: Citizen Zed

This is nothing new. We have one in the WH.


3 posted on 02/26/2016 6:11:49 AM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Go Ted!)
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To: Citizen Zed

More democRats


4 posted on 02/26/2016 6:11:57 AM PST by vigilante2 (Re-elect nobody)
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To: Citizen Zed

Great, as though there weren’t enough rodents around already.


5 posted on 02/26/2016 6:17:20 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: NonValueAdded

God help us.


6 posted on 02/26/2016 6:21:08 AM PST by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: Citizen Zed

Sort of pointless, considering China has hundreds of millions of unattached, available sperm donors running around.


7 posted on 02/26/2016 6:22:15 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

“Guns are expensive. You need men.”

—Chris Adams


8 posted on 02/26/2016 6:36:27 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Citizen Zed

“Primitive” sperm? What could possibly go wrong?

Good start for a horror movie!


9 posted on 02/26/2016 6:49:21 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Citizen Zed

This has been the dream of the Feminazi movement for decades!

Watch out, guys. Sleep with one eye open from now on.


10 posted on 02/26/2016 6:57:25 AM PST by DNME (The ONLY remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.)
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To: DNME

Isn’t this still something of a chicken-or-egg scenario in as much as a fetus is first required from which to gather stem cells? Doesn’t seem like the solution they need without the ability to use adult stem cells.


11 posted on 02/26/2016 7:08:23 AM PST by To Hell With Poverty (Tan Hairpiece Eminent Domain Trump Curse Word French Poodle Forgot To Put Toilet Seat Down)
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To: Citizen Zed

Rat-men and The SCUM Manifesto.


12 posted on 02/26/2016 7:41:14 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Citizen Zed

After reading Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I learned the mice were really here to experiment on us.


13 posted on 02/26/2016 7:43:49 AM PST by dfwgator
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