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Scientists have created artificial human sperm
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Shade613
Smash Apprentice
At first I was against this but, I kept thinking about it and realised that this could be used for stem cell reaserch(without killing babies) if we make an artificial eggs and the cells are missing chromosomes so olny stem cells are made. We could farm stem cells.
It doesn't exactly work that way. What would artificial eggs/sperm have to do with it? The method in the article used pre-existing embryonic stem cells and induced them to become sperm-like cells. As the name suggests, embryonic stem cells come from in vitro fertilized, 4-5 day old embryos. The harvested embryonic stem cells are cultured/grown/maintained for long term use and distribution.
If you were able to artificially induce cells to become sperm and eggs, you'd still have to fertilize the egg and wait 4-5 days to harvest stem cells from the early embryo. I also don't know where you got the idea of "missing chromosomes" or how it would help; but producing embryonic stem cell lines with chromosomes missing wouldn't work (they wouldn't be cultured properly) nor would it allow for proper research.
Shade613
Smash Apprentice
I didn't rthere should read the entire article. Chromosomes decide how cells are built, if we edit them it might be possible to make stem cells be made and not have the cells ever grow into a human.
Fuelbi
Banned via Warnings
I feel rather.... disturbed on this topic. The thought of a child that was made artificially... kinda..... just freaks me out. Like I dont know it didnt come from my sperm and even going to a sperm bank for a child kinda freaks me out. Adopting well........ it also freaks me out too but to a smaller extent... I just got the whole abomination complex in me. But dont think I wouldnt take it in but the thought...
Oh, I see what you're saying. Basically making an embryonic stem cell from a source that can't develop into a fetus/person. It's not entirely related to this, but there has been work done on that sort of thing with some results in mice.
http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/Healt...itories-for-genetic-and-genomic-research.html
http://www.stemcellcommunity.org/metadot/index.pl?id=2785
Just something to note, that embryonic stem cells are pluripotent, which means they cannot develop into a person once they've been removed from the embryo. The embryo has cells necessary for things like development of a placenta, which are not found in the inner mass of embryonic stem cells.
Hydra.
Smash Lord
I just wonder what the heck the kid is going to look like. And if they are all the same besides the girl sided stuff.
UltiMario
Out of Obscurity
I saw in an earlier part of the thread, SkylerOcon linked to an article stating that while the Y chromosome was shrinking over the course of all of life's history.
Even with the Chromosome repairing itself, it WILL dissapear. The only thing though, scientists can already build Chromosomes. If Y were to dissapear, was was going to soon Scientists could find a way to implement a New Y Chromosome as large as X, and last a nother few Hundred Million years before it fades out like its predecessor. How it could be applied to the entire human Population, I'm not sure, but females taking over the world due to the death of the Y Chromosome, and Sperm creation is extremly unplausible.
Even with the Chromosome repairing itself, it WILL dissapear. The only thing though, scientists can already build Chromosomes. If Y were to dissapear, was was going to soon Scientists could find a way to implement a New Y Chromosome as large as X, and last a nother few Hundred Million years before it fades out like its predecessor. How it could be applied to the entire human Population, I'm not sure, but females taking over the world due to the death of the Y Chromosome, and Sperm creation is extremly unplausible.