Essay | What If Men Could Make Their Own Egg Cells?
Essay | What If Men Could Make Their Own Egg Cells?
New technologies for creating genetically related children could transform family life, giving same-sex couples and infertile women more options for parenthood.
No where to put 'em. Also no crossing over with only one X, so no bueno.
6ReplyIt’s a very frustrating article. It talks a lot about ethics, but all I want to know about is how they reconcile the missing X chromosome.
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Some genes only work when got from a female parent, or from a male parent: iirc, that is called "imprinting".
Ttbomk, nobody knows why the effect happens.
Screwing with things for curiosity's sake is fine,
so long as you are paying the price for the screwery, right?
I'll bet that using only-male-chromosomes/genes for making new human lives will have some dire health-consequences for the new life.
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