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New Research Shows You Can Grow Sperm In a Dish (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: How the male body produces sperm has long been hidden inside its genitalia. Trying to recreate the process in a lab for humans and other mammals has led to many failures - sperm development appeared to be dependent on unique conditions in the testes. But a new technique may finally be bringing that process into the open. A team of Chinese researchers reports turning a dish of a certain type of mouse stem cell into spermlike cells, which were then used to fertilize eggs and produce healthy mouse pups. The approach could help researchers study mammalian sperm development more directly, and it could spur efforts to develop treatments for male infertility in people.
Seems that we've solved that problem.
I produce plenty, don't need a dish, only a web connection.
Table-ized A.I.
I was wondering if this would mean the third-wave feminists will drop their opposition to sex bots, now that men are no longer necessary to keep humans around - but then I remembered the reason they're opposed to sex bots isn't because they want humanity to survive, it's because they want a husband and a free lunch.
Especially to the pron industry?
>> it could spur efforts to develop treatments for male infertility in people. ...because the one thing this planet needs is even more humans?
perhaps one of the male lab assistants had a sense of humour and was left alone in the lab for a while.
Well guys, it took millions of years but we're finally redundant.
Men already get zero say in any reproductive rights (except the right to say yes to paying child support OR ELSE). We're sexist, responsible for every evil in the world, and totally unworthy of promotion, hiring, outreach, scholarships, etc. May as well take away our last contribution to the world so you can do away with us entirely.
There are SEVEN BILLION of us already here, and we are adding TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND more people, EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY!!!!
ENOUGH!
Well, I guess if people can just grow mouse sperm on demand, I might as well shut down the factory. I suppose it's for the best, I never could get the shipping issues worked out.
This is probably a great thing for lesbian couples trying to conceive. No more going to sperm bank and picking out some random stranger to be the father of your kids. Now just make sperm from your partners stem cells.
any similar results from countries that don't fabricate the vast majority of their findings in the biological sciences?
for the rape kit. a little gene mod here/a little there...profit!
I, for one, welcome the new tidal wave of science fiction, social justice flamewars, and legislation that follows this. This is so promising, I may buy popcorn futures.
Mz. Sheldon, your future has arrived.
Soon, you'll be able to make dinner at home on the cheap!
There is a nasty strand within feminism that regards all men as inherently evil. The prospect of being able to finally declare us redundant is therefore quite attractive to such people.This story is about one who had an abortion just because it was a boy http://www.inquisitr.com/18276...
You can grow ANYTHING in a dish!
And fixing the washing machine. That's about it guys. Other than that we are no longer needed by women.
Us guys need to get Boston Dynamics to develop the ultimate sex-bot, and then men and women can forevermore go their separate ways....
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
I sell semen, it's $9,99 the dozen. But I only sell under wholesale. Call 0800-marcello.
Aldous Huxley would jump with joy at this news....
I have read they have already figured out how to make Stem Cells from Blood and Skin. This could very effectively be used to impregnate a woman with a mans sperm against his will without him even knowing about it and it still genetically being his.
A woman at that point could possibly get sperm from a man without his consent or knowledge and then use that child as a golden ticket against them.
Imagine some of the more gold digging or obsessive women getting pregnant with an actors or otherwise rich figures sperm generated from some of his skin or blood only to then attempt to hit him up for child support claiming they had a one night stand or other such event.
May even have black market services selling such samples of famous figures so they can have Brad Pitts, Stephen Amells, or some others child. Doubly so when you see a woman doing this behind her husbands back so she can be married to a provider and then having some famous mans child and claiming it was his.
If this doesn't require the Y chromosome, then it could pave the way for female-only reproduction.
I'm male, but I have no qualms with the continuation of our species being without the Y chromosome (males). It's not an affront to my gender identity to wonder if the future would be better off that way. I'm not talking about killing off the males; just not making any more.
We should keep some male sperm frozen behind a glass door: "Break in case of extreme reproductive emergency."
"artificial" sperm + genetic manipulation = boys, more boys, and the future chinese army of "purebred" warriors.
Now try to produce them without the stem cell.
This is very cool and could potentially be extremely useful in animal breeding for livestock, pets or conservation biology. Basically, differentiate stem cells into eggs and sperm, cross, differentiate the new stem cells and repeat. A cool thing in animal breeding is that this could overcome species barriers, so traits could be introgressed by crossing species where the first generation offspring normally would have been sterile.
I can't need to stop reading these post. Now where did I put my soma...... ?
Millions of babies without fathers is just what the world needs.
Good, by the time the machines rule humans, we'll have all of that information on how to clone human batteries ready for them.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... time... to... die...
In thus began the history of another vestigial appendage.
news at 11.
I hope you're right. The joy of being a pessimist is that you get pleasantly surprised when the worst doesn't happen
It supposedly takes only 6 males to father a species, so, as Slashdotters have noticed, this results in the male gender being functionally obsolete. But society has known how to fertilize an egg for three decades, so female-only reproduction is possible but isn't a commercially-available service. Women watch romantic movies and get married instead. The reason romantic movies don't end with test-tube babies is firstly, the instinct for heterosexual pairing; secondly, because the moral of the movie is, a stalking male will change his behaviour and priorities to appease a female ego.
Well, my mother was a bit of a dish.
Well, looks like the genocide of the male gender is one step closer.
It's far easier for elites to control women through apparent social norms...
And lest you think me in jest, there are many feminists clamoring for just this sort of technology for years; Meanwhile, artificial wombs are taboo.
Not new. ... oh dear.
A google search for sperm in a dish shows a huge number of links for
I can grow sperm!
No dish required!
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Any angry waiter can testify to it.
Well, I knew that the Chinese have some exotic things on the menu, but this one is a bit novel, all the same.
Is that because there's so much porn on satellite TV?
I was disappointed when I realized they were not growing Spam.