A study by Japanese researchers involving the use of stem cells to create eggs and sperm, and fertilized eggs as a result, has been announced. The scientific effort to achieve this result has been afoot for many a year, and the Japanese researchers efforts have been attained in mice for the time being. The next step would be to try to attain these results in humans.
The team of researchers from Kyoto University, have established that the eggs can be replicated from stem cells, and even the sperm as well.
If this result can be achieved in humans, it may allow women the chance to become pregnant later in life, without the inherent problems already associated with advanced age proliferation reduced to some degree. More to the point, this new technology, if attained in humans, opens up a world of possibilities, and a whole other set of questions.
With the recent announcement that several of the hardest Cancer types may be able to be cured by examining each individuals DNA strand and then prescribing a personal curative approach for each cancer patient, could this technique, coupled with the stem cell research, allow for complete cloning of humans, with perfect DNA strands to allow for the absence of disease and other typically human ailments and negative life expectancies?
It would appear that the only thing needed for cloning of humans without the aid of a female host would be a synthetic womb, a place for the DNA modified, stem cell created egg and sperm, fertilized in a Petri dish, to be implanted. Hard to believe, but true.
