{"id":3984,"date":"2008-01-31T20:36:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T20:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:36:06","slug":"more-human-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3984","title":{"rendered":"More human genetics\/cell manipulation inanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">&quot;&#8230; suggests it may be possible for lesbian couples to have their own biological children.&quot; But it probably won&#8217;t work. hit the link for the whole article, from the <strong>UK Telegraph<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&amp;grid=&amp;xml=\/earth\/2008\/01\/31\/scisperm131.xml\"><strong>Sperm cells created from female embryo &#8211; Telegraph<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"story2\">However, Dr Robin Lovell-Badge, a stem cell and sex determination expert at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, doubts it will work: \u201cThe presence of two X chromosomes is incompatible with this. Moreover they need genes from the Y chromosome to go through meiosis. So they are at least double-damned.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;&#8230; suggests it may be possible for lesbian couples to have their own biological children.&quot; But it probably won&#8217;t work. hit the link for the whole article, from the UK Telegraph Sperm cells created from female embryo &#8211; Telegraph However, Dr Robin Lovell-Badge, a stem cell and sex determination expert at the National Institute for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14248,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions\/14248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}