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A Mouse With Two Mothers
jabberjaw writes "Both the BBC and Nature are reporting that scientists at Tokyo University of Agriculture have used two sets of chromosomes belonging to a female mouse to create what are essentially fatherless mice. The process by which this was accomplished (parthenogenesis) does not naturally occur in mammals. The mouse used lacked a gene known as H19 which in turn activated the Igf2 which allowed this process to occur."
is it still considered a bastard?
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Who's your daddy???
"The process by which this was accomplished (parthenogenesis) does not naturally occur in mammals"
What about baby Jesus.
Damn you, Freud!
The virgin birth, now who is god? Mouse society must be up in cheese at the moment. Could this be the second coming of the Mousiahh ?
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They dont need us anymore!
Panic!
Everyone loves lesbians! Even mice!
Because I always thought Heather Has Two Mommies
turn activated the Igf2 which allowed this process to occur.
Even though the uppercase "I" made me think of an "l", but why did that make me think "Lesbian Girl Friends 2"??? I must have been watching too much of The L Word recently!
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
Quote from picture caption on web site:
Could human babies be born without fathers?
Unquote
I was there when my children were born but quite
often this is not true. Especially years ago.
Doubt it. The Y chromosome is a mutation of the X chromosome and contains much less information. But let's see how this mouse goes. I've my suspicions that in addition to grand pronouncements we'll invent a host of new varients of immune deficencie and progeria like disorders before we've got the kinks more or less understood, let alone under control.
So as much as I'm looking forward to an all lesbian (but bi curious) amazon go-go dancer future where I'm the last man standing; this research and my time machine seem about equally incomplete. All for one and snu-snu for all.
Fabulous - just one more nail in the hetero male coffin.
Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.
The dinosaurs are in large part not present to disagree with you.
.. mice that walk around complaining all the time.
"You're not wearing that to the exercise wheel?!"
"You never give me fresh seeds anymore!"
"Ever since we had the brood you ignore me in the wood shavings!"
Trolling is a art,
Shut up you anti-life hate monger!
;-)
The best way to save the world is to meddle in all affairs because us few arrogant people with paper signs and peta-stickers know best!
Yes that was sarcasm. The point is meddling is what cause these "problems" in the first place. Why not just stop meddling?
Of course that's too obvious. Must take immediate and knee-jerk reaction to all of lifes problems.
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Now that women have this, combined with a device to open jars, we men are officially obsolete.
So does this mean we men have no use anymore?
Besides killing spiders and hooking up the VCR you mean?
He took a duck to the face at 250 knots.
Until your second sentence you were +5 insightful.
Dip me in honey and throw me to the lesbians!
OK, when they will do the same with two MALE mouses, I'll eat my shoe, I swear :)
- Arwen, I'm your father, Agent Smith.
- Well, you're just Smith, but my father is Aerosmith!
We don't need the men.
We don't need to have 'em 'round,
except for now and then.
They can come to see us,
When we need to move the piano,
Otherwise they can stay at home
and holler at the Yankees.
We don't care about them.
We can do without them.
They'll look cute in a bathing suit
on a billboard in Madagascar
-Malvina Reynolds (who also authored "Little Boxes")
Imagine finally having The Talk with your pubescent kid. The birds and the birds? The bees and the bees... and the scientists??
Parthenogenesis... H19... Igf2... How would you explain it?
Q: Mum, where do babies come from?
A: Eh? What? Ask your OTHER mother.
((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10))
I think some one has been watching this movie too many times.
You won't even feel a little prick.
There is STILL hope!.
To welcome our new lesbian overlords!
I've been on slashdot so long I'm starting to get out of touch with the cool stuff if it ain't on slashdot.
I guess they'll have to deliberate over this one first.
Ahhh, that explains it.
The word in the bible is not supposed to read virgin, but H19 deficient.
Easy mistake to make.
man.. women no longer need us.. men are becoming obsolete.. thats just fuckin great...
- Hi I'm Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux, Lih-nix..
Are you kidding me... where else could females find that friend to:
"Confide her intimate relationship problems in excruciating detail while at the same time telling you she wishes she could meet a 'decent' man"
Male nerds, don't tell me this hasn't happened to you.
Rosie O'Donnell is going to fave a field day with this one!
I long dreaded the day this would come. Now it is official, guys, we are superfluous now.
That's it. Dead meat. Face it! What would the girls need a guy for. I guess now we have to come with something fast, or the guys born now will soon become the last of their gender. Please think of something quick.
And don't be so lame as to go: Spider Squashers (what do You think they will come up with next: Spider Squashing Robots).
Note to self: Learn how to give good backrubs.
"Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity."
Tokyo University of Agriculture did not get permission to try the same with two male mice.
Tokyo government agreed that this might form some sort of mighty-mouse.
There is no way to cage this product if it gets angry.
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