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In reality we are still far from a situation where any sane person would want to create a human baby with such artificial sperm.
It’s true that baby mice were recently made this way, but all had serious abnormalities. However, the technology may eventually be perfected and could then be used to help men who are infertile because they fail to produce sperm in the normal way.
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- It might also allow gay or lesbian couples to have a baby that was biologically related to both partners – and it is this that most upsets right wing newspapers like the Daily Mail.
- There are those who argue that such a practice would be unnatural. But so are practically all other aspects of human life, from the food on our tables and the clothes we wear to the vehicles we drive.
- Yet with the development of the contraceptive pill in the 1950s, and then the birth of the first “test-tube” baby, Louise Brown, in 1978, the idea that there is a necessary link between sex and reproduction has been overturned.
- Many people are excited by the new reproductive technologies but many others are fearful of what kind of society they may be leading us towards.
- Yet it is worth remembering that, unlike the atomic bomb or machine gun, reproductive technologies have never killed anyone, unless one equates a ball of cells with a living person.
- A high priority for any rational, democratic society would be to assess the potential of these technologies to enrich our lives in a safe and responsible manner – but to do so will almost certainly require casting aside our ideas about what is natural based on past ways of viewing the world.

29 May 09

Iraq-born teen cracks maths puzzle - Yahoo! News

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25 May 09

BBC NEWS | UK | Clues found to menopause timing

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The menopause usually occurs between the ages of 45 and 55.
Such variants are known as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and are located at four different sites on chromosomes 19 and 20.
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- The scientists suspect they influence the ovaries or the brain, although their precise effect is not yet known.

19 May 09

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Scientists hail stunning fossil

interesting..

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29 Apr 09

اليوم السابع | اكتشاف أقدم جسم فلكى وأكثره بعداً

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رصد علماء الفلك فيضا من أشعة جاما مصدرها انفجار نجم قبل أكثر من 13 مليار سنة، لتصير أقدم جسم فلكى وأكثره بعدا إلى اليوم، وذلك وفق ما أعلنه مساء أمس الثلاثاء، علماء أمريكيون وبريطانيون.

21 Apr 09

The Associated Press: Stephen Hawking hospitalized, reported very ill

sad news..

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20 Mar 09

اليوم السابع | رجال البحث العلمى ينضمون إلى أصحاب المخابز والمعاشات والإداريين فى التعليم لاسترداد حقوقهم الضائعة

Scientific Researchers join the wave of strikes and protests in the country

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12 Feb 09

Darwin's revolutionary ideas | SocialistWorker.org

CHARLES DARWIN'S ideas revolutionized biology in the 19th century, but they also had a profound and lasting impact far outside narrow scientific circles, challenging religious dogmas and affecting almost every field of human knowledge.

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