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Sperm from women and a world without men

Thursday July 9, 2009

 

UK based scientists claim they can make synthetic human sperm in the laboratory using stem cells obtained from embryos donated by women. The scientists have produced a video to back up their claims that the stem cells are fully developed, mature and mobile.

 

How did they do it? The technique was developed through stem cell "tagging" using a genetic marker. It involves "taking bone-marrow tissue from women and coaxing the stem cells within the female tissue to develop into sperm cells," said Professor Karim Nayernia of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

The research was originally aimed at restoring fertility to men and enabling them to produce fertile sperm but scientists have discoverd that women can produce sperm of their own and that female couples can deliver their own biological offspring. Women couples would only be able to conceive "daughters" because they lack the Y chromosome found in male sperm cells that determine the male sex in embryos.

"I don't think there is an ethical barrier so long as it's safe. We are in the process of applying for ethical approval. We are preparing now to apply to use the existing bone marrow stem cell bank here in Newcastle", Nayernia said."But there is no intention at this stage to produce female sperm that would be used to fertilize a human egg, which would require the approval of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority," said Nayernia.

These eyebrow raising reports are certain to open further debate about the ethical questions surrounding stem cell research. On March 9, 2009, an Executive Order by U.S. President Barack Obama lifted restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research which President George W. Bush had vetoed.

WORLD WITHOUT MEN

Could it be that Nayernia has his sights set on the Nobel Peace Prize for putting an end to the gender wars? "Girls dress dolls. Boys stab them...and I am certain, that, should the men all leave, something terrible - something even worse than all the terrible things they have already done - would happen. Stay, men, stay", says Tanya Gold.

A female blogger commented, "Would a world without men be possible in the future? Maybe...that manly smell, mens clothes, their voices, their big hands and big d*cks and egos, their ability to manage under pressure, their direction, their innovation... what would we do without them? All those without those qualities are free to become extinct!"

Other female bloggers had this to say, "I would survive. But men make me happier" and "Women cannot do without men. And it's not about reproduction...once I've fu.cked them a couple of times, never want to miss the love stick" and "Mmm I wouldn't miss a thing".

The Daily Telegraph's Rowan Pelling says men are redundant but worth keeping for menial tasks. Yet I feel compelled - and not just as the mother of two small boys - to make a spirited defence of the weaker sex. Where would I be without my husband to read 80 pages of a car manual, in French, to find out how the back windscreen-wiper works? Who would tug the dried lumps of excrement from our cat's backside?...Who would clear a blocked drain of unspeakable clotted matter?..."

Emily Cool in the Daily Mirror writes, "I can only think of one useful man and that's scientist Karim Nayernia, who conducted the sperm research: "Women have always known that men are a bit of a waste of space … Now British scientists have proved how unnecessary blokes truly are..."

MacLeans.ca blog, Last Man on Earth says: WE MUST CRUSH THIS! Take away their funding, burn all evidence, delete all records, kidnap and kill those who made the discovery and then bury this entire story under some celebrity scandal. Men can't become irrelevant!