Stem Cell Fraudster May Have Actually Made Breakthrough 206
Otter writes "Woo Suk Hwang's career swung from fame over his lab's claim of the first stem cells from a cloned human embryo to humiliation when the results were found to be fake. Research at Harvard on Hwang's cells has found that they are actually parthenogenic lines derived from eggs -- perhaps a more important and difficult achievement than what he had been claiming! 'Researchers said that the distinct "genetic fingerprint" of the stem cells means they may be the first in the world to be extracted from embryos produced by the so-called "virgin birth" method, or parthenogenesis. This happens when eggs are stimulated into becoming embryos without ever being fertilised by sperm, and has been achieved in animals. However, before Hwang, no one had managed to produce a human embryo using parthenogenesis which lived long enough to allow the extraction of viable stem cells.'"
In a related story... (Score:4, Funny)
Um, sorry to correct the writer but... (Score:3, Funny)
basically (Score:5, Funny)
cl-0wned!
Woo Suk Hwang Haters... (Score:5, Funny)
have egg on their face now?
Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Cruelest...Parents...Evar
Those darn feminists (Score:5, Funny)
Then all those parallel parking spaces across the world will fall into disuse....wasted real estate....
Re:Um, sorry to correct the writer but... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ignorance in need of a cure (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not a waste of research (Score:5, Funny)
Then I should publish the 7376528 pickup lines that I know don't work....
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Cruelest...Parents...Evar
Re:ignorance in need of a cure (Score:5, Funny)
(See? We men aren't useful for much except for fixing cars and hauling around heavy objects. ;)
It's a standing joke between my Beloved and I.... "If only cucumbers could mow the grass...."
I hope it's a joke, at least.
Re:Jesus? (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe, but only if Mary had a Y chromosome.
He was not the first one. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Um, sorry to correct the writer but... (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry. You say Chimera and I think FMA.
But seriously, that's a very interesting question. Would that I still had mod points for the day.
Quote from Woo Suk Hwang (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ignorance in need of a cure (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Jesus? (Score:5, Funny)
"He" did have awfully long hair.
Re:Jesus? (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, now you too can have your own personal Jesus. Someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares, someone whos there...
(Strangely, I now feel like I have a Depeche Mode beating in my immediate future)
Re:yay parthenogenesis (Score:2, Funny)
Re:In a related story... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ignorance in need of a cure (Score:3, Funny)
> Is there a way to derive them other than using eggs?
As a Slashdot reader, I am sure that what you really want to ask is: "can we reproduce without women?". And Dr.Hwang's research has sadly failed to produce an answer to that question so far. Perhaps we should set up a donation site to prod him to research in that direction instead of trying to get women to conceive without men. I am sure that millions of Slashdot readers, and, of course, China, would be immensely grateful should such research be successful.
Re:Um, sorry to correct the writer but... (Score:2, Funny)
(so obligatory)
Re:Um, sorry to correct the writer but... (Score:3, Funny)
So that's how Jesus' midi-chlorian level was so high!
Of course, that would mean that Jesus was genetically Mary's twin brother.
So hers were the same level? Now I'm confused.
Re:Um, sorry to correct the writer but... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not a waste of research (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Um, sorry to correct the writer but... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hwang achieves parthogenesis... (Score:3, Funny)
>>Hwang achieves parthogenesis...
>>There's a joke in there, but I just can't put my finger on it...
I've got it! - Normally, you don't NEED a hwang to achieve parthenogenesis!