I am telling you, this story is just…asking for the fertility-controls-you crowd to start losing their shit. More than usual, I mean.
Caroline Parkinson at BBC reports that Japanese scientists have successfully bred mice using sperm made from embryonic stem cells:
Japanese researchers successfully implanted early sperm cells, made from the stem cells, into infertile mice.
The working sperm which they made was then used to father healthy, and crucially fertile, pups, Cell journal reports.
A UK expert said it was a significant step forward in infertility research.
If you’re now thinking, “this is just begging for jumping to conclusions,” you’d be right.
But he said the Kyoto paper was “quite a large step forward” in developing a process by which sperm could be made for infertile men, perhaps by taking as a starting point a cell from their skin or from something like bone marrow.
He added: “Clearly more work needs to be done to refine this process, but it’s hugely exciting.”
That much is fine, but somehow, the comments on the Jezebel story are all about how this means men are about to become obsolete.