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[ba-ohs-talk] Mouse Sperm


[just heard on NPR]    (01)

US scientists have managed to implant testical material from other
animals into mice, such that these mice can now produce sperm from
their implanted animals' testes. They're (the scientists, not the
affected mice, who would have likely as not have preferred their
own sperm cells) considering this as a possible way of preserving
a man's sperm should circumstances keep him from doing it himself.    (02)

As opposed to some of the things we're discussing here, do we
REALLY need this technology? And if you were a human child produced
from sperm stored in a mouse, how would you answer that perennial
jibe "are you a man or a mouse?" And wouldn't it make you just ITCH?
And would you have a fear of cats? (et cetera ad nauseum...)    (03)

e-gad.    (04)

Murray    (05)

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Murray Altheim                  <http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/>
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK    (06)

      If it wants to be a global power and a player in the
      Atlantic alliance, Europe has to get back into the
      business of making war. -- Newsweek Magazine, June 3, 2002    (07)