I knew there was an innocent explanation.
Posted on 02/04/2008 6:36:32 PM PST by Dajjal
I knew there was an innocent explanation.
The article is explaining that with the new technology for turning skin cells into stem cells, scientists will be able to take a woman's skin cells and turn them into male XX sperm, which can then be used to artificially inseminate a "regular" ovum.
Likewise, scientists will be able to take a man's skin cells and turn them into eggs. Then another man's sperm could fertilize those eggs, and two men could have their own child.
The article is not predicting a man-less society, nor that people will stop having children "in the usual way." It is simply predicting that in some individual cases, soon two women or two men will be able to have their own genetic child.
What’s really weird about this is that conceivably you could have your own child if you are a woman.
Take your own “female sperm” and impregnate yourself.
To quote Maggie in Treehouse of Horror V: “This is indeed a disturbing universe”.
Good thinking. It makes me wish they’d started this 30+ years ago.
Eeeewwwww!
Thank you, I was going to say it.
I had an idea for a book where the evil lesbian mad scientist created a virus that only attacks the Y chromosome.
Exactly what I was thinking... that word rib is actually curve...
Yeah....but, my sister in law could care LESS what YOU can do.....
You're kidding right?
Ever belonged to a club or meeting that was predominately women?
They can't agree on what time it is, let alone anything of substance.
Violence would be down but everything else would be chaos.
(asbestos suit on)
Mud-pits and water hoses in every house of government! Woo hoo!
May be great news for those who can’t reproduce. But the biological drive to make babies the fun way isn’t going away because of this.
Yes, my name IS Capt. Obvious. Or maybe it should be Capt. Wishful Thinking.
cat.fight.city.
Me too; and if not; it should be.
“You’re kidding right?
Ever belonged to a club or meeting that was predominately women?”
It does seem pretty unlikely. I suspect that other technologies will render it moot before it truly becomes an issue.
Neither the original New Scientist article nor the Daily Mail article imply that it would.
What they are saying is that in individual cases, two men or two women will soon be able to have a genetic child.
They’re so clever! That’s why they’re in charge!
First off, how painful is it to get bone marrow??
How easy is it to get sperm from a real man??
I’m thinking God is having a great big laugh at all of these scientists thinking they are going to create life on their own!
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