Comments on: To Boldly Grow Where No Sperm Has Grown Before: in a Petri Dish http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/25/to-boldly-grow-where-no-sperm-has-grown-before-in-a-petri-dish/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Wed, 23 May 2012 16:07:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: WOW http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/25/to-boldly-grow-where-no-sperm-has-grown-before-in-a-petri-dish/comment-page-1/#comment-1182481 WOW Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:17:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=27486#comment-1182481 Excellent news for those men who have azoospermia and desperately want to father a child. If this is controlled, safe and only used in extreme cases when nature can't fix it. This is truly magnificent for couples like us who have been happily married for 10 years and would love to have their very own birth child using their own make-up! Please keep us updated on the developments in this area. Excellent news for those men who have azoospermia and desperately want to father a child. If this is controlled, safe and only used in extreme cases when nature can’t fix it. This is truly magnificent for couples like us who have been happily married for 10 years and would love to have their very own birth child using their own make-up! Please keep us updated on the developments in this area.

]]> By: BK http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/25/to-boldly-grow-where-no-sperm-has-grown-before-in-a-petri-dish/comment-page-1/#comment-895651 BK Tue, 10 May 2011 17:18:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=27486#comment-895651 This is great news for people who having survived cancer in childhood find that they have no functional sperm. Now, sperm can be grown from precursor stem cells found in their own bodies. Lets hope the transfer of this technology to the production of human sperm from stem cells is not too far away This is great news for people who having survived cancer in childhood find that they have no functional sperm. Now, sperm can be grown from precursor stem cells found in their own bodies. Lets hope the transfer of this technology to the production of human sperm from stem cells is not too far away

]]> By: z3ncat http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/25/to-boldly-grow-where-no-sperm-has-grown-before-in-a-petri-dish/comment-page-1/#comment-750528 z3ncat Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:26:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=27486#comment-750528 Erik definitely has no grasp of feminism. I want to know when research like this, along with stem-cell research, will result in fully-functional artificial wombs! Erik definitely has no grasp of feminism.

I want to know when research like this, along with stem-cell research, will result in fully-functional artificial wombs!

]]> By: William http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/25/to-boldly-grow-where-no-sperm-has-grown-before-in-a-petri-dish/comment-page-1/#comment-749566 William Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:19:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=27486#comment-749566 Erik you obviously don't know what feminism is all about. Erik you obviously don’t know what feminism is all about.

]]> By: Erik L. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/25/to-boldly-grow-where-no-sperm-has-grown-before-in-a-petri-dish/comment-page-1/#comment-744746 Erik L. Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:24:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=27486#comment-744746 ...for feminists, yes. Children will still a dad. …for feminists, yes. Children will still a dad.

]]> By: Erik L. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/25/to-boldly-grow-where-no-sperm-has-grown-before-in-a-petri-dish/comment-page-1/#comment-744736 Erik L. Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:16:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=27486#comment-744736 Sure, but fathers, dads, won't be (not that feminists care, but their daughters and sons will). Sure, but fathers, dads, won’t be (not that feminists care, but their daughters and sons will).

]]> By: Terry http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/25/to-boldly-grow-where-no-sperm-has-grown-before-in-a-petri-dish/comment-page-1/#comment-740909 Terry Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:33:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=27486#comment-740909 Don't forget the other long term implication. Men will soon be obsolete... Don’t forget the other long term implication. Men will soon be obsolete…

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