{"id":408,"date":"2004-04-21T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/04\/21\/wihout-fathers\/"},"modified":"2004-04-21T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T16:11:00","slug":"wihout-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/04\/21\/wihout-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"wihout fathers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/1676240.stm\">Virgin birth? Well &#8211; if she was Mary the Slut, who would have believed her?<\/a>&nbsp;No more breaking out the turkey basters girls! A technique has been found that will cause an egg to start creating cells without a sperm. &#8216;Course, in this case, scientists are pretty certain that the process cannot produce a mammal baby, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/3643847.stm\">though something similar&nbsp;has been found to work on mice.<\/a> Bonus: a child without two gentic donors = ??. Hmmm. Some insects and some lizards manage it, soooo &#8211; trashy monster movies anyone? I&#8217;m all for genetic manipulation. I don&#8217;t want to have a child until it could have a tail or feathery wings, but I must say I&#8217;m slightly discomfited by the thought of creating worker drone humans. There&#8217;s something slightly soulless in cloning human bees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>links thanks to <lj user=\"untoward\" \/> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin birth? Well &#8211; if she was Mary the Slut, who would have believed her?&nbsp;No more breaking out the turkey basters girls! A technique has been found that will cause an egg to start creating cells without a sperm. &#8216;Course, in this case, scientists are pretty certain that the process cannot produce a mammal baby, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/04\/21\/wihout-fathers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;wihout fathers.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}