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afaiui so far it's a better incubator?

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yup. this doesn't solve, uh, basically any of the hard problems that stand between us and pod babies

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(interestingly though in terms of real-world impact it's going to be immense. changing earliest time a fetus is viable alone 'd do that)

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when reducing this time, at what ε would one run into one of those hard problems?

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at the very least you'd have to let the blastocyst implant somewhere, and there's a complicated molecular handshake going on

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that and you'll need ova; but honestly once we have enough knowledge to tackle this we could probably induce parthenogenesis much easier

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meaning it'll more likely to spell doom for men than for women ;P

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apparently since the last time I read about this, we've found a way to create human embryos through parthenogenesis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenog

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I seem to remember that there was recently a male version of this, but idk about the specifics

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there's no inherent reason that'd be impossible but it's a lot harder for sure

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nature.com/news/mouse-egg this seems to be the study that sparked these news, but: "has yet to use male skin cells to produce eggs in mice."

5:38 PM · May 6, 2017Twitter Web Client

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it's not especially hard to produce eggs or force eggs to produce diploid somatic cells without fertilization, sure

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what's hard is actually getting something useful as a result. we're nowhere close. we don't even really know *why* we're nowhere close