All-female conception may be possible soon!

[ecstatic]

Scientists create artificial sperm cells; Papers hype all-female conception

Scientists say they have managed for the first time to create artificial sperm cells, a development that the popular press has seized upon as a sign that sterile men -- and even women -- may be able to fertilize eggs in the future.

The researchers turned adult stem cells from bone marrow into immature sperm cells. They're excited about the discovery, but say that it could take three to five years to develop a process whereby the cells develop into the more mature sperm cells found in the testes.

"This finding is of interest but we really need to be very cautious about the interpretation," a leading biologist tells BBC News.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/04/scientists_crea.html

Wow... men, you better be careful or you will be completely obsolete soon!! Just kidding.

[davidinalameda]

1. I thought they were already able to splice two egg cells together

anyway, this sounds way expensive to do just to make babies

[Glorfindel]

2. Good grief...the problem is already TOO MUCH fertility

Aren't there serious problems these people could be researching?

[Scooter24]

3. Something just doesn't feel right here...

but who am I to hold back science.

[ecstatic]

5. LOL... are you male? nt

[Scooter24]

7. *looks down* heh...yeah

:blush:

[Hekate]

4. This will make Bush & the fundies go into a science-fiction tailspin...

...like they've done with the fictional "human-animal hybrids."

I'm not doubting the science -- just predicting RW reaction. The RW gets seriously phobic about manless families. Everything from divorced mothers to lesbian couples sets them off. I can only imagine what this news will do!

Just wait for it.

Hekate

[DCKit]

6. Personally, I'm kinda surprised it hasn't already happened by accident : ) n/t

[DeSwiss]

8. Although I'm a male....

.....I can see the poetic justice in all this. Not to mention the possibility of having a future with no Bushes, Cheneys, Dobsons, Robertsons, Falwells, Feiths, Rumsfelds, Gonzalez, ad infinitum.....

Just let me finish with this one, and I'll join the girl's side in my next life!

:P :) :o ;)

[SoCalDem]

9. All hail Amazonia n/t