>With the sexy title, “Virgin Birth Stem Cells Bypass Ethical Objections,” today’s on-line New Scientist is hyping the possibility of producing embryonic stem cells from induced parthenogenesis, the stimulation of an oocyte (or “egg”) to begin dividing to produce an embryo. The flawed reasoning is that, since these embryos are short lived and do not … Continue reading
With the sexy title, “Virgin Birth Stem Cells Bypass Ethical Objections,” today’s on-line New Scientist is hyping the possibility of producing embryonic stem cells from induced parthenogenesis, the stimulation of an oocyte (or “egg”) to begin dividing to produce an embryo. The flawed reasoning is that, since these embryos are short lived and do not … Continue reading