just the X chromosome, just like sperm created from female stemcells would only have X chromosomes, though who knows as I think I read about the possibility of creating a Y from an X once.
Reminds a few years ago when I read about this: https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(14)01583-9.pdf
It's some really fascinating stuff, and I wish the stigma surrounding stem cells would die. It's a whole new frontier of medicine that we need to tap into and understand fully.
Theoretically, babies someday could be made from the blood, hair or skin cells of children, grandmothers, even deceased people.
Leaving aside all the sociological, psychological and ethical barriers, clonation is not fully allowed beyond the researching field and I don't see this changing in many, many years. I know this is stating the obvious and the post is not projecting to a near future, but there is a lot more to consider than the implications.
It is an option for a couple that can't have kids, but for extreme cases of "I don't want to let him go" you will eventually have to explain to someone that he was born again and from a dead person.
People could even potentially make babies from cells stolen from unwitting celebrities, such as skin cells left behind on a soda can or follicles from hair clipped at a salon.
"A woman might want to have George Clooney's baby," Green says. "And his hairdresser could start selling his hair follicles online. So we suddenly could see many, many progeny of George Clooney without his consent."
I just had a picture in my head of a woman making the last push and the doctor holding the baby next to the mother with a Nicolas Cage face.
Same for the doctor's face. And his asistant. And the nurse.
Does this mean we’re even closer to trans pregnancy?
No this is the wrong direction for that.
Growing wombs from stem cells that have XY DNA would be closer to it, or finding a way to allow an XY body to accept a lab grown XX womb.
You would never be able to create a Y from an X.
They have managed to make a sperm cell from XX stem cells if I recall correctly but to make an Y chromosome you need male DNA that just isn't present in XX chromosomes.
https://i.imgur.com/ZkgLBiR.jpg
oh I think someone has been cloned already, there's certainly not a high barrier to the technology and there's a lot of people out there who have the money and vanity to pay for it especially in less regulated regions like asia.
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