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.'
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)
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.”
But who will pay child support then?
You still can’t get a vibrator to fix your car.
ROFLMAO.
Sounds like men’s easy and commonplace sperm production makes this science-experiment redundant.
SnakeDoc
Yeah, it is in questionable taste. (That’s what he said!)
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.
You mean it's not the payload but the delivery system that matters...
"Let me see that honey... huh, it doesn't seem to be able to pick up the check."
The military applications of this is endless
Good. Less reason for men to marry the gold digging wenches.
The freedom inherent in bachelorhood is priceless!
"They're alive ... ALIVE!!!1!"
Scientists can create sperm in the lab.........big deal, i can do that in my sleep
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.
We’ve twisted God’s creation into a Brave New World.
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