Lab-made sperm could make men redundant...

Metro.co.uk ^ | July 7, 2009 | N/A

[Jet Jaguar]

Women who say they don't need a man may well be right – after human sperm was created in the lab.

The breakthrough could give hope to infertile couples and men left unable to have children after having cancer treatment.

But don't worry guys, the scientists who created the sperm using stem cells don't plan to take you out of the baby-making process just yet.

'While we can understand some people may have concerns, this does not mean that humans can be produced in a dish and we have no intention of doing this,' said researcher Prof Karim Nayernia.

'The work is a way of investigating why some people are infertile and the reasons behind it.

'It could also allow men who are currently infertile the chance to have a child which is genetically their own but this will be many years away – at least a decade.'

While scientists at Newcastle University and the NorthEast England Stem Cell Institute insist 'fully mature, functional sperm' was produced, other experts cast doubt on their findings.

Prof Azim Surani, from Cambridge University, described the lab samples as 'a long way from being authentic sperm cells'.

And the MRC Institute of Medical Research said: 'Although they find some of the sperm cells have tails and can swim, this is not evidence of normality.'

[staytrue]

The only function for men is to pay child support.

[Wage Slave]

Don’t worry, guys. It’s not the missile, it’s the delivery system that matters. You can’t be replaced.

[jakerobins]

Everyone knows that Natural Ingredients are better than something made in a lab.....

Compare Regular Sugar to the Artificial Sweetners.

[Nachoman]

All righty, then. Kill your own damn bugs.

[Jeb21]

Reading the article disproves the headline. They are doing it for shock value. They aren’t able to make viable sperm (though the creators of it, and their obvious proponents say otherwise), as the article states.

Playing G-d has serious consequences.

[Texas Fossil]

Thanks for the chuckle.

I needed that.

This is more junk science, bull. Of coarse there are females in Calif. who would want to adopt this, my question is-

Why?

[Aria]

Don’t worry, guys. It’s not the missile, it’s the delivery system that matters. You can’t be replaced.

YUP! :-)

[2banana]

saw this a few years ago:

Lab-made wombs could make women redundant...

[Niteflyr]

And lifelike female rubber dolls with non-operational mouths will make women redundant...

[sonofstrangelove]

Sounds like something from “Brave New World”

[Sylvester McMonkey McBean]

But don't worry guys, the scientists who created the sperm using stem cells don't plan to take you out of the baby-making process just yet.

So, they've managed to "build" sperm cells from stem cells.

Silly question but, who built the stem cells?

[Niteflyr]

Don’t worry, guys. It’s not the missile, it’s the delivery system that matters. You can’t be replaced.

Yeah and plastic dolls leave a lot to be desired too..;o)

[Billthedrill]

I don't need a dang laboratory to make me redundant.

Wait a minute...

[plsjr]

You mean Axlotl tanks?

[Gator113]

All this time I thought size mattered, now all they want it a full teaspoon and we don’t even have to be in the room.

Oh well, more time for fishing. LOL

[Jeffrey_D.]

“All righty, then. Kill your own damn bugs.”

That got a belly laugh out of me !!!!
Thanks!!!

[keat]

Lab-made non-sperm could won't make men redundant...

There, fixed it.

[Lockbar]

A lesbian’s ultimate dream.

[RichInOC]

“Can’t beat the real thing.”

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Typical news items. Big hype in the headlines, and little supporting information in the article.
They will NEVER manufacture human sperm. Living matter comes only from living matter.

More likely, they will do their research on finding a way to make human ova develop without the help of a male. That would make the man-hating feminazis real happy (and destroy the human race in the process)

[VR-21]

God, how I pity the young. This world in it’s age of technological miracles seems to be getting less worth living in with each passing day. Future Shock perhaps, but damn if it doesn’t seem that we’re less human than those who walked the earth centuries ago in what we now dismiss as ‘unenlightened times.”

[Mr. K]

But who will pay child support then?

[Mr Snuggle Bunny]

You still can’t get a vibrator to fix your car.

[DivaDelMar]

ROFLMAO.

[SnakeDoctor]

Sounds like men’s easy and commonplace sperm production makes this science-experiment redundant.

SnakeDoc

[RichInOC]

Yeah, it is in questionable taste. (That’s what he said!)

[Costumed Vigilante]

Silly question but, who built the stem cells?

Shut up, that's who.

Look, all I know is that this invention means that, as far as I understand what females find attractive, there is going to be a market for Ferrari's that can be driven by stem cells.

Additionally, garbage bags are going to have to be made much, much smaller if stem cells are going to carry them out of the kitchen.

A verbis ad verbera

[libh8er]

It’s not the missile, it’s the delivery system that matters. You can’t be replaced.

You mean it's not the payload but the delivery system that matters...

[SunkenCiv]

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"Let me see that honey... huh, it doesn't seem to be able to pick up the check."

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[sonofstrangelove]

The military applications of this is endless

[Chewbacca]

Good. Less reason for men to marry the gold digging wenches.

The freedom inherent in bachelorhood is priceless!

[martin_fierro]

"They're alive ... ALIVE!!!1!"

[reagan_fanatic]

"Well, that certainwy takes all the fwun out of it!"

[cd jones]

Scientists can create sperm in the lab.........big deal, i can do that in my sleep

[Slings and Arrows]

I think Monty Python said it best...

[Maelstorm]

I seen this coming for several years. Sad to see this awful vision come true. Just think of how this can be misused to twist society and culture even further.

[Grizzled Bear]

We’ve twisted God’s creation into a Brave New World.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

[a fool in paradise]

Even lesbians use “toys” shaped like male appendages.

[myknowledge]

Is there everything wrong with it?

[Grizzled Bear]

Yep.

[Lizavetta]

Don’t worry, guys. It’s not the missile, it’s the delivery system that matters. You can’t be replaced.

Dittos.

Men are great because they're MEN, not because they have sperm.