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Scientist can make offspring without sperm or an egg!

  • 13-09-2016 8:11pm
    #1
    Car99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭


    http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37337215

    And

    http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35658650

    So one set of scientist can fertilise an egg with stem cells and another set of scientists can create an embryo without an egg. Quite a feat but why is this experimental research carried out ? What are they hoping to achieve that can benefit mankind?


Comments

  • #2
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
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    An army of Terminators?


  • #3
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    How to restart the human race after billions are wiped out without inbreeding.....look what Adam and Eve did afterall:D:D


  • #4
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Car99 wrote: »
    Quite a feat but why is this experimental research carried out ? What are they hoping to achieve that can benefit mankind?
    May allow infertile men to have children that share their DNA.


  • #5
    Ted111
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    What are they hoping to achieve

    to make your wife happy


  • #6
    moc moc a moc
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    the_syco wrote: »
    May allow infertile men to have children that share their DNA.

    Maybe they're infertile for a reason?


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  • #7
    Car99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭Car99


    Ted111 wrote: »
    to make your wife happy

    Bet you've been waiting for the chance to use that witty reply for ages.


  • #8
    gifted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,966 ✭✭✭gifted


    But can they make the ultimate Easter egg???....that is the question


  • #9
    paleoperson
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    Captain Chaos wrote: »
    How to restart the human race after billions are wiped out without inbreeding.....look what Adam and Eve did afterall:D:D

    Any ethical person would be working on the opposite - trying to make sure humans would never plague the earth again.


  • #10
    ziggy
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #11
    Ted111
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    Car99 wrote: »
    Bet you've been waiting for the chance to use that witty reply for ages.

    The thread title seeded it in my mind.


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  • #12
    Car99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭Car99


    Ted111 wrote: »
    The thread title seeded it in my mind.

    Plenty stuff in there to nourish it


  • #13
    Ted111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    Car99 wrote: »
    Plenty stuff in there to nourish it

    Yes, but I'm trying to forget your opening post.


  • #14
    munster87
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    Pretty fly for a science guy


  • #15
    the_syco
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    moc moc a moc wrote: »
    Maybe they're infertile for a reason?
    You bringing the tooth-fairy into the argument?


  • #16
    harry Bailey esq
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    Car99 wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37337215

    And

    http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35658650

    What are they hoping to achieve that can benefit mankind?

    Achieve fatherhood.Women like bastards,not scientists.


  • #17
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Time to pop on a Fear Factory album.


  • #18
    tritium
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    moc moc a moc wrote: »
    Maybe they're infertile for a reason?

    Bit of a crass comment that. Would you blame someone for any other disability they may have, maybe tell someone that they were born blind for a reason?


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
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    Car99 wrote: »
    What are they hoping to achieve that can benefit mankind?

    Presumably to give people who can't conceive a better chance of achieving their dream?


  • #20
    Samaris
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    moc moc a moc wrote: »
    Maybe they're infertile for a reason?

    Well, yeah, there's generally a reason someone's infertile. They go to a doctor to find out if there's any way around it.


    Also, the practical benefits are presumably so if a couple is infertile, etcetera. Or the clone army, could go either way.


  • #21
    Wibbs
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    tritium wrote: »
    Bit of a crass comment that. Would you blame someone for any other disability they may have, maybe tell someone that they were born blind for a reason?
    Well they would be. Not some daft reason born of superstition, but there would be a reason. If it was a genetic one that could be screened for then it would hardly be crass to a) screen for it and b) try to avoid it. Disability should NOT be a blame thing, neither should it be some sort of holy honourable thing. The world would be the better if there were no disabilities.

    As for fertility? Yep there could be reasons there where it might be better to not reproduce and cause further issues for the next generation. It would depend on the reason for the infertility.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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  • #22
    Howard the Duck
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    Soon the dark side shall have it's army


  • #23
    paleoperson
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    Well they would be. Not some daft reason born of superstition, but there would be a reason. If it was a genetic one that could be screened for then it would hardly be crass to a) screen for it and b) try to avoid it. Disability should NOT be a blame thing, neither should it be some sort of holy honourable thing. The world would be the better if there were no disabilities.

    And who gets to define what counts as "disabled" and not? Could go down a very nasty road if you're not careful.


  • #24
    Wibbs
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    paleoperson wrote: »
    And who gets to define what counts as "disabled" and not? Could go down a very nasty road if you're not careful.
    Well the obvious clear as the nose on your face disabilities would count easily enough. Blindness, deafness, Downs, congenital defects etc.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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