Saturday, January 22, 2011

Not exactly a clone...

I had a strange dream tonight. Slipping away, but i'll try to write down the part that remains. Setting and plot are all gone, but there was this idea: an unfertilized ovum was emptied of its nucleus, and replaced by the nucleus of a man's sperm. Then the ovum was fertilized by a sperm of the same man.

It just occurred to me that if two men wanted to have a child that was genetically both of theirs, this would be the (a?) way to do it... Of course, gene combination would have to be controlled in some way. Otherwise the child might end up with two Y chromosomes and no X, for instance, and I doubt that such combination is viable.

Strange thoughts to be having this early on a Saturday morning.

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