Thursday, January 31, 2008

"DNA splice" children.

(excerpt from "count Zero")
"But you have people? You got a man to go back to?"
"A woman, you want to know," she said. "Know anything about breeding dogs?"
"No," he said
"I didn't think so." She squinted at him. "We got a kid,
too. Ours. She carried it."
"DNA splice?"
She nodded.

When william Gibsom wrote this back in 1986, it was science fiction, now it may very well become reality.
Scientists have succesfully created a sperm from a human female embryo. They hope that they'll be able to create sperm from female bone marrow in the future, effectively allowing lesbians to have a child of their own genetic make-up.

Cyberpunk is happening today.

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