Japanese Scientist Create Egg Cells In The Lab For First Time

Discussion in 'Science and Technology' started by Vanilla Gorilla, Oct 19, 2016.

  1. Vanilla Gorilla

    Vanilla Gorilla Go Ape

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    That is, fertilized eggs that dont require any genetic material from a female

    Only in mice so far, but.......scary






    http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/mouse-egg-cells-made-entirely-lab-give-rise-healthy-offspring
     
  2. sonatadusk

    sonatadusk Banned

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    This may be used by the New World Order (National Socialist, Nazi) party in their campaign to ban sex, violence, non-approved speech, drugs, and anything stimulating, entertaining, or natural. They will not be satisfied until we are all trapped in cubicles, devoid of hope and suffering for eternity.
     
  3. Vanilla Gorilla

    Vanilla Gorilla Go Ape

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    Sounds like the Matrix
     
  4. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    Yeah that's exactly what national socialist nazis are into..

    :unsure:
     
  5. tumbling.dice

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    Who, specifically, are you talking about? Give me names.
     
  6. tumbling.dice

    tumbling.dice Visitor

    I remember when they cloned Dolly the sheep 1996. Some people were freaking out, worried it would lead to 'designer babies' and 'super-humans' and so forth. Of course, nothing has come of it. Before that some were freaked by test tube babies but nothing catastrophic has happened as a result of that either. People just have a tendency to distrust anything new. Any technology, new or old, can be misused.
     
  7. guerillabedlam

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    Yah with the 1% success rate on Mice Eggs, I'm not really as apprehensive of the Brave New World as sonatadusk, but at the same time, I'm not sure I really see the immediate benefits of this research.
     
  8. Vanilla Gorilla

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    Except it did lead to designer babies.

    Thailand, India had to outlaw it a couple years back.

    Foreigners were coming there picking the sex.
     
  9. Irminsul

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    And the eyes and hair color.

    Yeah, even I thought about it... :unsure:
     

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