I'm trying to figure out what it means in a larger sense. So far, I haven't got much, although I imagine Lisa might have some thoughts, though I dunno.
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Wait a minute... if the female sperm didn't contain a Y chromosome, does that mean they could only produce female offspring? Also, about the male eggs, what would happen with a YY baby? The thought scares me...
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Seems to me a great exercise in basic science. We used to do these sort of things, but now, if we can't anticipate an economically sound argument in favor of research, we don't do the research. Which is a real shame, since most of science wasn't an engineering project, it was just an exercise in curiosity. Who knows what incidental learning from this experiment will lead to?
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"Also, about the male eggs, what would happen with a YY baby?"
I think they're totally non-viable. An X chromosome is absolutely necessary for human life, IIRC from high-school biology.
This guy hasn't published yet. It'll be interesting to see what happens if he does. I wonder if he's really mastered the process or not. It just seems so far beyond where we currently are. OTOH, we're cloning all kinds of creatures now, and creating glow-in-the-dark animals of all types. That's pretty wild.
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