Posted on 07/09/2009 12:41:19 PM PDT by JoeProBono
LONDON – British scientists claimed Wednesday to have created human sperm from embryonic stem cells for the first time, an accomplishment they say may someday help infertile men father children. The technique could in 10 years allow researchers to use the basic knowledge of how sperm develop to design treatments to enable infertile men the chance to have biological children, said lead researcher Karim Nayernia, of Newcastle University, whose team earlier produced baby mice from sperm derived in a similar way.
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I wonder if I am the only person to see the bitter irony in this.
Yeah, we’ll eventually end up with a bunch of humans that weren’t conceived the old-fashioned way. Eventually, the world’s population will all be the same color, speak the same language, and probably be of the same faith...no more wars, no more violence, no more love/hate. It will all be bred out of us.
To create a life form from another life form is cloning, is it not?
"pick your sons, pick your daughters too
from the bottom of a long black tube" -
In the Year 2525 - Zager and Evans
And the sick part is that they’re using embryonic stem cells to “create” these dodgy sperm. Where do these embryonic stem cells come from, I wonder.
Big deal, so can I.
> They created nothing. They extracted it at best. It’s like saying you created Oxygen after applying a current to water.
That, coupled with the fact that they created a living embryo by using material harvested from a dead one...
If that isn’t sick I don’t know what is.
Maybe sooner!!
>> created a living embryo by using material harvested from a dead one...
I got ahead of myself there. Should read:
created a living sperm by using material harvested from a dead embryo...
Stem cells, by their nature, given the circumstances, can change into any type of cell.
As per the BBC video report, the scientists managed to induce the stem cells to split their chromosome pairs into two halves, grow a tail each, and the acrosomal caps.
The ‘achievement’ here, is to produce the circumstances artificially to make the stem cells follow a path that will lead them to become sperm cells.
Came to say that, you beat me to it.
Yes, pun intended.
And I made the mistake of saying your handle out loud, now the damn horses won’t shut up.
> “Big deal, so can I.”
LOL Beat me to it!
Cloning is genetic duplication of an existing organism. What these researchers did was create a gamete (sperm) which would need to be combined with another gamete (egg) in order to develop into a new organism, and that organism would not be genetically identical to either of the organisms whose genetic material was used to produce the gametes.
What happened to curing Parkinson’s and making the lame walk and the blind see?
Instead, we can take an embryo which is an egg fertilized by a sperm, and kill it, and in the process manage to make a sperm that someone else can use to fertilize and egg to make an embryo?
Wow.
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