Human babies 'grown in lab'

[emad]

By Oliver Stallwood, Metro
5 May 2005

Human eggs which could grow into embryos have been created in a laboratory for the first time, scientists announced yesterday.

They were created by scraping stem cells off the surface of ovaries and exposing them to a chemical which stimulated growth.

The breakthrough suggests limitless supplies of eggs could be grown, solving the problem of the acute shortage of donor eggs for infertile women wanting IVF treatment.

But the idea has horrified pro-life groups after scientists admitted they could use the technique to 'farm' embryos for their research.

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/18388656?source=Evening%20Standard#

[beam me up scottie]

1. That's awesome!

Hopefully it will keep the anti-choice fascists so busy they'll forget about trying to seize control of our wombs.
Not going to hold my breath though.

[rodeodance]

2. tell them to go after the human genes/tissues in rice, pig livers, sheep

etc etc.

[rodeodance]

3. I just notices thread was in the 'Science" of NON-political forum.

These binaries no longer hold-if they ever did.

[beam me up scottie]

4. I never noticed that until

just now.
This is important, I wonder if it was posted elsewhere.

[sakabatou]

5. The things aren't even human, just a bunch of cells

and the pro-life group is horrified? WTH?