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2023-03-15 Science & Technology

[Via CFP] Scientists in Japan say they have succeeded in breeding mice with two fathers, using eggs originating from male cells. While the scientific breakthrough could pave the way for new fertility treatments, experts say it is still a long way from being used in humans.
Why new fertility treatments when there's already too many to feed?

Populations are reaching and passing birth/death tipping points in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. Fertility treatments that are cheaper and easier than those currently available may be what keeps the Japanese, Spaniards, and Russians from going extinct in their native ranges. Ditto cheetahs and white rhinos.

Katsuhiko Hayashi, a renowned biologist at the University of Osaka, said his team had used chromosomal engineering to breed seven "healthy" mice pups, hailing a "first case of making robust mammal oocytes (eggs) from male cells".
File under: Just Because You Can Do Something....

Posted by Mercutio 2023-03-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 it is still a long way from being used in humans

I wonder, will they be humans?

Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-15 00:21|| 2023-03-15 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Prediction: given china's demograhic timebomb, they will be the first to clone humans at scale. The clone wars have begun!

Posted by Ulitle Snump1786 2023-03-15 06:35|| 2023-03-15 06:35|| Front Page Top

/\ They may not have far to go.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-15 08:23|| 2023-03-15 08:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Does that mean you will be able to buy a Chinese clone in a big box store?

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-15 08:43|| 2023-03-15 08:43|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Apparently you already can.

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-15 09:18|| 2023-03-15 09:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Ditto cheetahs and white rhinos.

May be more useful than Russians.

Posted by Daffy Glolugum2832 2023-03-15 12:53|| 2023-03-15 12:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Another step toward the culture of death.

Gen 3:4
... you will be like God ...

Gen 2:22
The Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man.

Remember the unborn.

Posted by Ebbalet White1732 2023-03-15 14:17|| 2023-03-15 14:17|| Front Page Top

#8 And women have been ribbing men since then.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-15 14:46|| 2023-03-15 14:46|| Front Page Top

#9 you will be like God, knowing good and evil...

Posted by Lonzo Munster8610 2023-03-15 17:10|| 2023-03-15 17:10|| Front Page Top