Lately, I've read a couple articles that have talked about recent experiments with stems cells from bone marrow.  By adding vitamin A to the stem cell culture, scientists have been able to turn the stem cells into immature (not fully developed) sperm cells.  They talk about how men who don't have very mobile sperm could use the procedure to make ( Read more... )

This is amazing - 'Virgin births' for Komodo dragons.  It's actually parthenogenesis, but we didn't know Komodo dragons could do that!  (And wouldn't that mess up the whole Christmas story if Jesus was actually a product of parthenogenesis (which wouldn't work, because Jesus was male and Mary was, obviously, female, but still ( Read more... )