British researchers recently announced that they can now turn embryonic stem cells into sperm capable of producing offspring. What does this mean in the real world? Well, someday it could mean that certain types of male infertility could be overcome. And more “controversially” (as the Daily Telegraph piece explains), it could also mean that a lesbian couple could theoretically be able to produce a child together that was genetically their own. Our plan to take over the world is almost complete.

Scientists grow sperm from stem cells [Daily Telegraph]

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