Human Sperm Produced In the Laboratory

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 8, 2009 @06:20AM from the that's-not-starting-from-scratch dept.

duh P3rf3ss3r writes "The BBC is carrying a report from a team of researchers at Newcastle University who claim to have developed a the first 'artificial' human sperm from stem cells. The research, reported in the journal Stem Cells and Development, involved selecting meristematic germ cells from a human embryonic stem cell culture and inducing meiosis, thus producing a haploid gamete. The authors claim that the resulting sperm are fully formed, mature, human sperm cells but the announcement has been greeted with mixed reaction from colleagues who claim the procedure is ethically questionable and that the gametes produced are of inferior levels of maturation."

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Re:Well... by DeadChobi · 2009-07-08 06:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Good luck getting anything built, assembled, or shipped without us.

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Re:Sperm Shortage? by iamhigh · 2009-07-08 08:28 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Nietzsche stated that religion allows the lowest of beings to survive, and now science is allowing those who by nature were not supposed to reproduce, do so. Idiocracy is coming faster than you realize!!

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