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Scientists Get Closer To Replicating Human Sperm (engadget.com)
Rachel England reports via Engadget: Scientists have taken an important step forward in recreating the way the human body makes sperm, which could one day mean creating artificial sperm and eggs for infertility treatment. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge's Gurdon Institute, are thought to be the first team to have reached the "halfway point" -- a significant milestone -- on the path between stem cells and immature sperm. This pathway -- which the team are attempting to track and understand -- involves embryonic cells turning into immature sperm via a series of complex steps known as meiosis. Cells follow the same journey for around eight weeks, before taking different directions depending on whether they're to be sperm or eggs. Previously, the team had managed to track this pathway to the four-week mark. Now, using new technology in the form of miniature artificial testicles (called "gonadal organoids"), it's on track to pass this point and gain new, deep insight into the process of sperm creation. Further reading: The Guardian
We need the MRA douchebags to come out and march against the elimination of the male sex! Just think....in 50 years a woman can create sperm from her own cells or the cells of a partner and when enough of them do that the male sex will end...........
It would all go terribly wrong when there were no more men, and women realized they had nobody to blame for their failures.
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The North Korean committee to produce butter from shit has reached the halfway point. The taste is still off, but it already spreads pretty well.
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