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    Breast Intentions

    Scientists Make Sperm From Stem Cells, Media Fears "Petri Dish" Babies

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    Image of sybann sybann
    11/12/09

    In reply to Breast Intentions
    This is wonderful! Please alert me when us flat chested sisters can do the same. Just one damn cup size... #breastcancer
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    Image of BearDownCBears BearDownCBears
    11/12/09

    In reply to Breast Intentions
    That'll do, pig. #breastcancer
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    Image of Kilotwat Kilotwat
    11/12/09

    In reply to Breast Intentions

    I don't want no mutant titties... or do I? #breastcancer
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    Image of sarasasa sarasasa
    11/12/09


    @Kilotwat: Be careful, if Woody Allen taught us anything, is that those things can take a life of their own. #breastcancer
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    Image of curiousgeorgiana curiousgeorgiana
    11/12/09

    In reply to Breast Intentions
    Story's like this just make me amazed at what humans are capable of discovering.

    Anecdote: My mom had open heart surgery and when they cut open her chest, her breastbone shattered. They reconstructed the bone using a mesh cylinder that, yep, biodegrades over the course of a decade. AWESOME. #breastcancer
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    11/12/09

    @curiousgeorgiana: I just saw my typo, and it is pissing me off. But alas, too late to edit. Sorry all! #breastcancer
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    07/08/09

    In reply to Scientists Make Sperm From Stem Cells, Media Fears "Petri Dish" Babies
    You know those "Handmaiden's Tale" devotee types didn't see this twist coming.
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    Image of ivorytusk ivorytusk
    07/08/09

    In reply to Scientists Make Sperm From Stem Cells, Media Fears "Petri Dish" Babies
    My husband and I did in vitro fertilization, so wasn't my kid that I'm currently pregnant with . . . made in a dish?


    On a weird side note, I actually found out that the embryologist who "made" my kid is the wife of a colleague of mine at work . . . and she totally saw me naked.

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    07/08/09

    @ivorytusk: Traumatic.
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    Image of sciencerules sciencerules
    07/08/09

    In reply to Scientists Make Sperm From Stem Cells, Media Fears "Petri Dish" Babies
    Also, you can't just make people in a dish. Uteruses are kind of important, as well as all the hormones and whatnot. You can fertilize cells in a dish for sure, but there's a reason we implant those and don't grow them in jars like in A Brave New World.
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    07/08/09

    @sciencerules: I just ... really love the way you described that. :D
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    Image of ozu ozu
    07/08/09

    @sciencerules: Yet. I'm developing a synthetic uterus prototype in my bathroom. It's mostly construction paper and party balloons at this point so it's probably a ways out from clinical trials, but I'm pretty optimistic.
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    Image of inabook inabook
    07/08/09

    @sciencerules: I still hold out hope that science will invent a Really Big Dish... because birth, it terrifies me.
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    Image of sciencerules sciencerules
    07/08/09

    @ozu: Perhaps you could get the construction paper cabal to fund your research for their seekrit nefarious purposes?
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    Image of utensil42 utensil42
    07/08/09

    In reply to Scientists Make Sperm From Stem Cells, Media Fears "Petri Dish" Babies
    Um...aren't we already creating human life in "dishes" already? Like, all the time? What the hell do these people think happens with IVF? It's not like the creation of artificial sperm negate the need for an incubator (womb).
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    Image of Skellatrix Skellatrix
    07/08/09

    @utensil42: Yeah that's my confusion on this "dish" fear... It's not like scientists are conjuring babies out of thin air.
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    Image of merv merv
    07/08/09

    In reply to Scientists Make Sperm From Stem Cells, Media Fears "Petri Dish" Babies
    yeah, I pretty much love the picture you've chosen to accompany this article.
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    Image of geekgirlliz geekgirlliz
    07/08/09

    In reply to Scientists Make Sperm From Stem Cells, Media Fears "Petri Dish" Babies
    So my baby sis and bro, being a product of artificial insemination are essentially 'dish babies' and therefor not OK according to the media? They look just fine to me (cute, smart, annoying, normal kids)!


    So, am I lacking some natural, moral feeling since I don't think fertilizing an egg with lab made sperm in a petri dish is inherently unethical?


    Help me jezzies, what am I missing here??

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    Image of Skellatrix Skellatrix
    07/08/09

    @geekgirlliz: You're missing JESUS, and the love between a man and a woman!
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    Image of Brigit Brigit
    07/08/09

    In reply to Scientists Make Sperm From Stem Cells, Media Fears "Petri Dish" Babies
    I love how every time some news come out about reproductive research the usual suspects start running around like headless chickens while screaming "Immoral, Teh Endz IZ NEAR!, men will be replaced by ROBOTS!!"
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    Image of so5minutesago so5minutesago
    07/08/09

    In reply to Scientists Make Sperm From Stem Cells, Media Fears "Petri Dish" Babies
    Could this mean that, eventually, a lesbian couple would be able to have a child to which they were both biologically related?
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    Image of Brigit Brigit
    07/08/09

    @so5minutesago: I could see this happening without this procedure. Not that it can be done right now (that I know of) but it's plausible that you could inject the DNA from one partner into the egg of the other partner, and -with proper conditions in the cell media and the addition of a bunch of cofactors into the solution afterward- make the egg that has now a complete set of instructions and could generate a viable fetus.


    But again, I have no idea if it can be done nowadays.

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    Image of Rare Affinity Rare Affinity
    07/08/09

    In reply to Scientists Make Sperm From Stem Cells, Media Fears "Petri Dish" Babies
    Actually if you can store sperm and use it years after beng donated to fertilise an egg, then you would only need to keep a sufficiently large supply of frozen male cells to carry on the human race. Therefore, in theory, you would not need to keep men alive for breeding purposes.
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    Image of Jello Mix Jello Mix
    07/08/09

    In reply to Scientists Make Sperm From Stem Cells, Media Fears "Petri Dish" Babies
    Parthenogenesis, here I come!
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    Image of AmericanSplendor AmericanSplendor
    07/08/09

    In reply to Scientists Make Sperm From Stem Cells, Media Fears "Petri Dish" Babies
    You know what, crazy public that fears all? All this sciency shit isn't going to replace real, old-timey baby-making. Why? BECAUSE PEOPLE LOVE SCREWING.
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    Image of birminghamdrunk birminghamdrunk
    07/08/09

    @AmericanSplendor: word to that. screwing rocks.
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