“Can’t beat the real thing.”
Posted on 07/07/2009 3:31:42 PM PDT by 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.'
The only function for men is to pay child support.
Don’t worry, guys. It’s not the missile, it’s the delivery system that matters. You can’t be replaced.
Everyone knows that Natural Ingredients are better than something made in a lab.....
Compare Regular Sugar to the Artificial Sweetners.
All righty, then. Kill your own damn bugs.
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.
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?
YUP! :-)
saw this a few years ago:
Lab-made wombs could make women redundant...
And lifelike female rubber dolls with non-operational mouths will make women redundant...
Sounds like something from “Brave New World”
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.
Yeah and plastic dolls leave a lot to be desired too..;o)
Wait a minute...
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
“All righty, then. Kill your own damn bugs.”
That got a belly laugh out of me !!!!
Thanks!!!
There, fixed it.
A lesbian’s ultimate dream.
“Can’t beat the real thing.”
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