Absolutely! And it's not just for breakfast anymore.
Some folks are still making bacon on the side as well.
:o)
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thewoodwardreport.com ...
Bingo. Manipulating existing material is much less ground breaking than actually creating from nothing, the DNA, the matter of life. They cannot do this, so the next best thing in their minds is being able to manipulate existing material to take the form of something else. My kids did that with play doh. Look mommy a fish, no wait (as he squishes it up) look mommy a race car!
Create the play doh-er- matter needed to make the sperm and the egg. You still need men and women you dodo’s. Ya can’t do it without their stem cells, or a human baby’s stem cells. Killing one to make the ingredients for another is barbaric, not progress......
Right on!
just another sign of the end times...
and man will think himself a god... and create life...
bad stuff coming... get right with God...
jesus is coming... look busy.
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OMG! Yeah, you beat me to it too! Zager & Evans-”in the year 2525”. I heard this song just the other day on the radio,and listened to the lyrics. It was almost prophetic.
Absolutely! And it's not just for breakfast anymore.
Some folks are still making bacon on the side as well.
:o)
Yep no turkey basters needed any more either. Ain’t progress neat?
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