Posted on 10/05/2012 11:48:59 AM PDT by neverdem
It’s Modern Family meets reality!
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 ...
Wait ‘til the Fabulous Fascists get ahold of this. No breeders needed.
IMHO, they'll make this illegal in humans.
Man, just think. That used Slurpee straw could result in your having kids without your own knowledge!
Science fiction meets reality!
Yikes!
Mouse Puppies??
I do not like
Mouse Eggs and Sperm
I do not like them
Herm-I-Squirm....
All we need now is the artifical womb and the industrial processing of the product and it’s “Brave New World” time.
Not surprising this development occurred in Japan, a first world country with a cratering birth rate.
Armies of clones?
All we need now is the artifical womb and the industrial processing of the product and it’s “Brave New World” time.
Not surprising this development occurred in Japan, a first world country with a cratering birth rate.
Japan does need this otherwise they will die out...
Replicants?
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.
I was being sarcastic, and this research doesn't prove anything about humans, only about mice.
I do not like them
Herm-I-Squirm....
Green Eggs and Sperm! - Dr Sploosh!
Dr. Ian Malcolm ( Jeff Goldblum ):
“The complete lack of humility for nature that’s being displayed here is staggering.”
I would not eat them
on a knish
With jello
In a petri dish
I wouid not eat
with watercress
Or lick them off
An old blue dress
I would not eat them
On a dare
at Arbys
Rax
Or anywhere
I do not like
Mouse Eggs and Sperm
So do not mix them
Herm-I-Squirm
I was being facetious earlier, playing on the “brave, new world” theme, but the last time I checked, most biological experimentation models rely heavily on studies and experiments performed on mice. Humans have no genetic barrier significant enough to make it impossible for these mice-based experiments to be extended onto human subjects. In other words, these mice experiments are the stepping stones which will eventually lead to human experimentation, if it has not already done so.
>>IMHO, they’ll make this illegal in humans. <<
Who is “they”? and will it be worldwide? Do you actually believe that every country would enforce it? What about those dictators who yearn for an Olympic Gold metal? Or those who believe they can breed violence out of the human mind?
At least in the USA. I can't tell what some wacked out dictator or lefty would do. This also presumes that there are no flaws in this method.
(David) Solter says that at the extreme, the new approach could lead to the production of human embryos from cell lines and tissue samples. Still, he notes, "defining the status of such 'parentless' human embryos and the biological, ethical, and legal issues they will raise defies the imagination."
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