Sensationalized coverage:
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37337215
Original article
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160913/ncomms12676/full/ncomms12676.html
Seems like they took eggs, made them undergo the first few steps of parthenogenesis, and then were still able to fertilize them from normal sperm. To me it sounds like "we turned our house into a home office, but we found out it still works great as a house!" But it's still kind of neat.
Kind of freaky in the overall picture. It's hard to wrap my head around a world that doesn't need sperm or eggs to make new people, and the enormous social implications of that.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37337215
Original article
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160913/ncomms12676/full/ncomms12676.html
Seems like they took eggs, made them undergo the first few steps of parthenogenesis, and then were still able to fertilize them from normal sperm. To me it sounds like "we turned our house into a home office, but we found out it still works great as a house!" But it's still kind of neat.
Kind of freaky in the overall picture. It's hard to wrap my head around a world that doesn't need sperm or eggs to make new people, and the enormous social implications of that.
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