Posted on 02/04/2008 6:36:32 PM PST by Dajjal
British scientists are ready to turn female bone marrow into sperm, cutting men out of the process of creating life.
The breakthrough paves the way for lesbian couples to have children that are biologically their own.
Gay men could follow suit by using the technique to make eggs from male bone marrow.
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But critics warn that it sidelines men and raises the prospect of babies being born through entirely artificial means.
The research centres around stem cells - the body's 'mother' cells which can turn into any other type of cell.
According to New Scientist magazine, the scientists want to take stem cells from a woman donor's bone marrow and transform them into sperm through the use of special chemicals and vitamins.
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Early-stage sperm have already been produced from male bone marrow.
Taking stem cells from an adult donor - possibly a cancer patient - removes the ethical problems associated with using embryos.
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Researchers at the Butantan Institute in Brazil, meanwhile, claim to have turned embryonic stem cells from male mice into both sperm and eggs. They are now working on skin cells.
If their experiments succeed, the stage would be set for a gay man to donate skin cells that could be used to make eggs.
These could then be fertilised by his partner's sperm and placed into the womb of a surrogate mother.
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Can death of the mother be far behind?
I call BS.
Consider how much easier it would be to rule a society that existed solely of women.
Aldus Huxley, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
By Ford! I’m so glad I’m a beta. Alphas have to works so terribly hard.
That would be far away at this point.
Currently, two men would still need to hire a "surrogate mother" to carry their child.
Damn, we actually agree on something - my standing in the community is at risk...
God will not be mocked.
Consider how much easier it would be to rule a society that existed solely of women.
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Are you kidding??? I can’t imagine sharing a kitchen with another woman, much less nothing BUT women.
I think you are overreacting. Just because there are a short few who want a maleless society (as some men want a femaleless society), us women WANT you guys around.
I don’t dig women THAT way and don’t suspect I’ll ever.
When you consider all the offspring would be female, if large numbers of women did this, it would skew the sex ratio.
“Consider how much easier it would be to rule a society that existed solely of women.”
You mean the toilet seats would always be down ????
It doesn’t bother me a bit. It’ll be a looooooooooooong time—if ever—before a test tube can do what I can do...!
“You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”
Eleven posts and no boner jokes?
No boner, just bone. Such a shame.
Maybe the uterus transplant is just around the corner.
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