Dads not yet redundant, study shows
by JERUSALEM (JPS) -- Children could be born to two biological mothers without the need of a father if a technique developed by sep, Dr. Orly Lacham-Kaplan, a cell biologist, presented her findings at a medical conference in Switzerland last month. She found a
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"Theoretically, women can actually have children without men, so men are redundant, but that's all in theory," Lacham-Kaplan said, quipping: "My personal view is that we don't have to give up men yet. They're still very useful for us women."
Dr. Ze'ev Rosenwaks, an Israeli who has become a U.S. leader in assisted reproductive techniques, presented a lecture to the same medical conference on his team's work, which achieved the same result with certain variations.
Rosenwaks used a similar process, but on human egg cells. He separated the chromosomes and prepared them for fertilization, but did not produce human embryos.
The two scientists apparently were not aware of the other's discovery. Neither has published their findings yet.
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