Posted on 10/28/2009 8:01:12 PM PDT by thisisthetime
Human eggs and sperm have been grown in the laboratory in research which could change the face of parenthood.
It paves the way for a cure for infertility and could help those left sterile by cancer treatment to have children who are biologically their own.
But it raises a number of moral and ethical concerns. These include the possibility of children being born through entirely artificial means, and men and women being sidelined from the process of making babies.
Opponents argue that it is wrong to meddle with the building blocks of life and warn that the advances taking place to tackle infertility risk distorting and damaging relations between family members.
The U.S. government-funded research also offers the prospect of a 'miracle pill' which staves off the menopause, allowing women to wait longer to have a child.
It centres on stem cells, widely seen as a repair kit for the body. Scientists at Stanford University in California found the right cocktail of chemicals and vitamins to coax the cells into becoming eggs and sperm.
The double success, published in the journal Nature, raises the prospect of men and women one day 'growing' their own sperm and eggs for use in IVF treatments.
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Brave New World.
I still think its more fun the old fashioned way!
No men or women needed. So where do they get the stem cells?
Stem cells just aren’t as much fun as a good romp in the hay. There will always be kids produced by, ahem, time-tested biological methods....
Unicorns.
looks like a harvesting nightmare.
Uh...weren’t we told that stem cell research was for helping the Christopher Reeves’ and Michael J Fox’s of the world?This helps them HOW????????
More catering to those obsessed with having biological children when they should obviously be looking to adopt.
LOL. That song started to play in my head when I saw this article.
Algore? He was the inspiration for 'Love Story', created the internet, was the see-all and end-all in predicting Goreball Warming. Maybe they cloned one of his chest hairs (if he has any which I seriously doubt) and created an all new improved human being. Big Al is capable, ya know?
Yep. John Edwards told us that Christopher Reeve would get up out of the wheelchair and walk again, and he would have already done so in 2004, if not for Bush administration policy on embryonic stem cells.
Why are liberals/Democrats never called out on idiotic things that they say?????????
On the upside, it'll lessen the need for a draft.
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Exactly!
Frozen embryos are stored, forgotten and thrown away, and still they find yet another way to produce children. More money for a non-life threatening situation and less for children dying of incurable diseases.
On the downside there will be 2 clone troopers for every citizen.
It doesn’t matter how successful they are in doing this kind of stuff.
The old way of joining sperm and egg will forever be more popular.
It also raises the question of the quality of humans created by this method. What if they all die by age 20?
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