yimija
15-05-04, 11:03
Yes, I know, it sounds terribly complicated, but you will find more information about PARTHENOGENESIS at the bottom.
BUT THAT IS NOT THE WORST PART OF IT !
IS IT THE END OF THE MALE IN REPRODUCING HIMSELF ??
If one believes what it is said, new experiments in Japan, Australia, France, US, and probably in other parts of the world, achieved in creating a living being WITHOUT USING MALE SPERMATOZOIDS . Now, that is some kind of freightning news (and I'm dead serious, believe me), because it can lead to just about any kind of excess, in any direction and you add to it genetical manipulation and you'll find soon in a factory producing self-regenerating warriors... That leaves a door wide open on your imagination.
I'll let you read, and comments afterwards...
QUOTE 1
This is a really interesting and important discovery. The authors from Tokyo University of Agriculture successfully produced mice by combining two eggs, one of which expresses a gene called H19 and the other expresses Igf2. The headlines of course emphasize the sensational aspect of this work, i.e. "mouse created without father", "the mouse that roared: Virgin Birth"... People are talking about lesbians being able to have babies...
But the real scientific story behind this achievement is much deeper and has significance for stem cell research, cloning, and hence spinal cord injury. What these scientists discovered was the mechanism by which mammals prevent parthenogenesis. For a long time, scientists have known that there is something that a mammalian sperm brings to a mammalian egg that allows it to produce a viable organism.
QUOTE 2 :
New Experimental Fertility Technique
by
Peter O'Connor,
Associated Press Writer
July 12, 2001; Canberra, AUSTRALIA (AP) -- Australian researchers say they have pioneered in mice a potentially revolutionary technique that fertilizes female eggs without the need for male sperm. Developed by Dr. Orly Lacham-Kaplan at the Institute of Reproduction and Development at Monash University in Melbourne, the procedure uses half the genetic material from any cell in the body, either male or female, to fertilize an egg. Lacham-Kaplan stressed that the experiments are in extremely early stages. But Dr. Robert Winston, a London fertility expert, said that if the technique works in humans, "this is actually genuinely revolutionary and potentially very important." The real advantage of the technique is for men who cannot produce sperm, Winston, who was not connected with the research, told the British Broadcasting Corp.
Links to learn more about it :
http://www.o-matic.com/play/parth/parth_swf.html
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/sci/A0837738.html
http://www.grg.org/Parthen.htm
WHERE ARE WE GOING ?????????
BUT THAT IS NOT THE WORST PART OF IT !
IS IT THE END OF THE MALE IN REPRODUCING HIMSELF ??
If one believes what it is said, new experiments in Japan, Australia, France, US, and probably in other parts of the world, achieved in creating a living being WITHOUT USING MALE SPERMATOZOIDS . Now, that is some kind of freightning news (and I'm dead serious, believe me), because it can lead to just about any kind of excess, in any direction and you add to it genetical manipulation and you'll find soon in a factory producing self-regenerating warriors... That leaves a door wide open on your imagination.
I'll let you read, and comments afterwards...
QUOTE 1
This is a really interesting and important discovery. The authors from Tokyo University of Agriculture successfully produced mice by combining two eggs, one of which expresses a gene called H19 and the other expresses Igf2. The headlines of course emphasize the sensational aspect of this work, i.e. "mouse created without father", "the mouse that roared: Virgin Birth"... People are talking about lesbians being able to have babies...
But the real scientific story behind this achievement is much deeper and has significance for stem cell research, cloning, and hence spinal cord injury. What these scientists discovered was the mechanism by which mammals prevent parthenogenesis. For a long time, scientists have known that there is something that a mammalian sperm brings to a mammalian egg that allows it to produce a viable organism.
QUOTE 2 :
New Experimental Fertility Technique
by
Peter O'Connor,
Associated Press Writer
July 12, 2001; Canberra, AUSTRALIA (AP) -- Australian researchers say they have pioneered in mice a potentially revolutionary technique that fertilizes female eggs without the need for male sperm. Developed by Dr. Orly Lacham-Kaplan at the Institute of Reproduction and Development at Monash University in Melbourne, the procedure uses half the genetic material from any cell in the body, either male or female, to fertilize an egg. Lacham-Kaplan stressed that the experiments are in extremely early stages. But Dr. Robert Winston, a London fertility expert, said that if the technique works in humans, "this is actually genuinely revolutionary and potentially very important." The real advantage of the technique is for men who cannot produce sperm, Winston, who was not connected with the research, told the British Broadcasting Corp.
Links to learn more about it :
http://www.o-matic.com/play/parth/parth_swf.html
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/sci/A0837738.html
http://www.grg.org/Parthen.htm
WHERE ARE WE GOING ?????????