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Article #29093Direct me: Making a baby from two females
From: greisman Jack Hammer ksc mok
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1991 14:39
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1991 14:39
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yeah, you don't want specific stuff here-- so please direct me to where I can go to find what I want to know... What I want to do is to make a baby. The parents are two female humans. What I imagined doing was taking a donor sperm and replacing its nucleus with that of an egg from woman 1. Then, of course, I'd fertilize woman 2's egg with it. I (in my phenomenal degree of ignorance) figured that in this way the egg would be triggered correctly by the sperm, and everything would be fine. Sure, we have a 100% chance of getting a girl baby, but that's fine too. Even I know nothing's this simple. The main question I have is, of course, where can I go to find out what I need to know? If you want to tell me things by email (which I would much appreciate!), my questions are: How does the makeup of the egg's nucleus compare to that of the sperm's? Does the sperm's nucleus have to be a _man's_ nucleus to join the egg's nucleus to make a full complement of chromos? That is, are there special protein present in the nucleus of one that the other is missing that need to be present (or need to be absent)? Can I switch the nuclei in the sperm without anyone noticing? Thank you very much, and I look forwards to hearing from you. --Jack Greisman@umbc.umbc2.edu Dr. Hammer, ksc ----->Moloko Cabal<----- Wisdowm and knowledge = (-: I thought I'd at least have gotten some nice pictures!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1119a6,e3d73c5f48326408,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1119a6,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-18 08:30:31 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!umbc3.umbc.edu!umbc1.umbc.edu!greisman From: greisman@umbc1.umbc.edu Jack Hammer, ksc, mok Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Direct me: Making a baby from two females Message-ID: <1991Jul18.135242.3348@umbc3.umbc.edu> Date: 18 Jul 91 14:39:15 GMT Sender: newspost@umbc3.umbc.edu (News posting account) Reply-To: greisman@umbc1.umbc.edu Organization: UMBC University of Maryland Baltimore Campus- Baltimore, MD, US Lines: 32