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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (130210)10/19/2001 9:47:29 AM
From: Tommaso  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
That guy need about ten years in the state pen to give his son time to grow to a size that he can beat the hell out of him.



To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (130210)10/22/2001 8:40:26 PM
From: Boquacious  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 436258
 
JG--you are going to be immaterial. the feminist, who I gather you support, will win.

US researchers discover artificial sperm

Researchers in the US have discovered a cocktail of chemicals which could be used as artificial sperm.

Dr Jerry Hall and Dr Yan-Ling Feng have found a way of eggs in female mice reproducing their own chromosomes.

Although the experiments have only been carried out on mice, researchers believe it could also work in humans.

The doctors, from the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Genetics in Los Angeles, managed to make eggs in female mice duplicate the necessary number of chromosomes to start cell division - the beginning of human life.

Although the research is based on mice, previous findings have found similarities mice eggs and human eggs.

In normal human reproduction, an egg would carry 23 pairs of chromosomes and the sperm which would fertilise it would carry another 23 sets.

But, if the new research could work in humans, it would mean sperm would no longer be needed.

Any babies born from the process would be female, however, and genetically identical to their mother.

Story filed: 23:15 Monday 22nd October 2001
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