Re: [PIUG List] controversial patent application (Science)

This is probably as controversial as Artificial Intelligence during
it's early days? This too shall pass.

Science in motion.

Are male eggs and female sperm on the horizon?
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19726414.000-are-male-eggs-and-female-sperm-on-the-horizon.html

Pushing the Edge: Efforts at 'same sex' reproduction
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=26703

Men No Longer Needed?: Scientists Use Female Adult Stem Cells to
Create "Female Sperm"
http://www.medicaldaily.net/story.asp?ID=260143&Title=Men%20No%20Longer%20Needed?:%20Scientists%20Use%20Female%20Adult%20Stem%20Cells%20to%20...

All-Female Conception: Women May Be Able to Produce Sperm
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/all-female-conception-women-may-be-able-to-produce-sperm.html

WO07051625: Compositions And Methods For Producing Pluripotent Cells
 From Adult Testis
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=WO27051625A2

Guan K, Nayernia K, Maier LS, Wagner S, Dressel R, Lee JH, et al.
(2006) Pluripotency of spermatogonial stem cells from adult mouse
testis. Nature 440:1199-1203
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ihg/staff/profile/karim.nayernia

At 12:22 AM 2/12/2008, BOB BUNTROCK wrote:
>New Scientist for Feb. 6 has an editorial and an article on
>reproduction between two people of the same sex. Both are prompted
>by a patent application (no data given) by occasional list
>contributor Greg Aharonian, patenting technologies necessary to
>accomplish male cell conversion to eggs and female cell conversion
>into sperm. Methods including cellular reprogramming and artificial
>chromosomes are described in the application. Research in a number
>of countries in these areas is described and possible legislative
>and policy reaction to these developments in the USA and UK are also discussed.
>
>Aharonian's motive is stated to be to promote discussion.
>
>One sentence in the article intrigued me: "Aharonian has not shown
>that the techniques work--that is not necessary to claim ownership
>of an invention."
>
>Any comments?
>
>-- Bob Buntrock
>Orono, ME
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