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[Armageddon-or-NewAge] Embyos without paternal chromosomes now possible

 

 

This is probably one of the final insults to God. N http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=60567 ZAPPED HUMAN EGGS DIVIDE WITHOUT SPERM Posted By: Seidr <Send E-Mail>Friday, 3 December 2004, 4:58 a.m.

 

Journal reference: Reproduction (vol 128, p 697) by Andy Coghlan A trick that persuades human eggs to divide as if they have been fertilised could provide a source of embryonic stem cells that sidesteps ethical objections to existing techniques. It could also be deployed to improve the success rate of IVF. “Embryos” created by the procedure do not contain any paternal chromosomes – just two sets of chromosomes from the mother – and so cannot develop into babies. This should remove the ethical objections that some people have to harvesting from donated human embryos. There are high hopes that stem cells, which can develop into many different cell types, could be used to treat a range of diseases. The tricked eggs divide for four or five days until they reach 50 to 100 cells – the blastocyst stage. These blastocysts should in theory yield stem cells, but because they are parthenogenetic – produced from the egg only – they cannot be viewed as a potential human life, says Karl Swann of the University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff, UK. “This could eliminate one of the main sources of ethical controversy in this research,” says Bob Lanza, head of research at the cloning company Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts. But Josephine Quintavalle of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, a London-based pro-life lobby group greeted the new procedure with caution. “I’d be happier if it was beyond all reasonable doubt that it could not become a human life.” She added that women must not be exploited to provide eggs. “Spark of life” Swann’s team tricked the eggs into dividing by injecting phospholipase C-zeta (PLC-zeta), an enzyme produced by sperm that Swann discovered two years ago with Cardiff colleague Tony Lai. “It’s the spark of life,” says Swann, who has previously showed that the human version of the protein can trigger mouse eggs to develop into blastocysts. “It tricks the egg into thinking it has been fertilised.” Human eggs contain two sets of chromosomes, one of which is normally jettisoned within two hours of fertilisation. Swann and his team used a standard chemical treatment to prevent this, so both sets in the parthenogenetic embryos come from the mother. The embryos appear to undergo the same changes as naturally fertilised eggs, producing waves of calcium ions across the cell every 20 to 30 minutes. MORE ARTICLE AT LINK:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996733

 

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ZAPPED HUMAN EGGS DIVIDE WITHOUT SPERM (views: 332)Seidr -- Friday, 3 December 2004, 4:58 a.m.

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