Friday, April 13, 2007

Bad Luck for Men

 
Today is Friday the 13th and the bad news for men is a report that women may have discovered how to have babies without us [The prospect of all-female conception]. All the babies will be girls.

Fortunately, Steve Palter is on to it over at docinthemachine [Babies Without Men: Creating Sperm From A Woman’s Bone Marrow]. He's a fertility specialist and he reviews the science behind the story. As it turns out, pathenogenesis may not work. Imprinting may save us (temporarily) from a fate worse than death.

It all started when we let them vote. Our great-grandfathers knew it would come to this eventually.

3 comments:

  1. I, for one, fully support this research, as long as equal funding is provided to longevity treatments for people who are already adults.

    Why would I NOT want to live in a world of women?

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  2. So wouldn't the question then be, how long until we can identify and activate all those imprinted genes?
    That could be done, right?

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