It is life and very simple, but it also sucks. It’s a type of cell that can’t do its purpose − become multicellular, gestate in a uterus wall and turn into a mammal − but can do all defining functions of life (eat, move, produce copies of itself). Still, it’s not as good at moving and eating as bacteria, and unviable in natural conditions.
It gets destroyed by the people who created it because by then, it has shown that the sperm was viable. It could form a colony in favorable conditions, which are not naturally occurring outside mammals.
This is a horrible ethical argument. It has about as much logic as anal sex being legitimate before marriage because of the loophole of it not being traditional penetration. Just have sex. Just use viable human cells. Who cares.
In the related articles, there’s a link to the Hamster zona-free ovum test where this snippet lies:
Although medical professionals often present the procedure as unable to create an embryo,[5] these claims are not technically correct. If the human sperm succeeds in penetrating the hamster egg, a hybrid embryo is indeed created, known as a humster.[6] These embryos are typically destroyed before they divide into two cells; were they left alone to divide, they would still be unviable.[7]
I don’t know why people are freaking out over this article. It’s pretty well known that lots of animals (especially within their own class) have eggs that can be fertilized by different species. It doesn’t matter like 99.99% of the time because the resulting cell is unviable and will not develop into anything because the merged DNA is incompatible and will fail to generate into a developed organism.
The exception to this are hybrids (like a mule), rare cases where similar enough species can actually create a viable fetus, but the resultant hybrid is usually sterile and unable to reproduce its own offspring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_(biology)
Are we sure?
I mean, human sperm can fertilize hamster eggs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Humster - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humster#%3A~%3Atext=A+humster+is+a+hybrid%2Cthey+would+still+be+unviable.
It’s been a while since I read something that made me feel as uncomfortable as that article did. Gross.
It was bad at first, then it got worse.
I mean… Is it still a life if it gets destroyed when the cells divide?
It is life, but it’s not a multicellular life. Aka, it’s no more advanced than a single bacteria
It is life and very simple, but it also sucks. It’s a type of cell that can’t do its purpose − become multicellular, gestate in a uterus wall and turn into a mammal − but can do all defining functions of life (eat, move, produce copies of itself). Still, it’s not as good at moving and eating as bacteria, and unviable in natural conditions.
It gets destroyed by the people who created it because by then, it has shown that the sperm was viable. It could form a colony in favorable conditions, which are not naturally occurring outside mammals.
This is a horrible ethical argument. It has about as much logic as anal sex being legitimate before marriage because of the loophole of it not being traditional penetration. Just have sex. Just use viable human cells. Who cares.
Republicans
In the related articles, there’s a link to the Hamster zona-free ovum test where this snippet lies:
Although medical professionals often present the procedure as unable to create an embryo,[5] these claims are not technically correct. If the human sperm succeeds in penetrating the hamster egg, a hybrid embryo is indeed created, known as a humster.[6] These embryos are typically destroyed before they divide into two cells; were they left alone to divide, they would still be unviable.[7]
Oh sweet man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.
Gotta work that comprehension level mate
maybe i shouldn’t have opened Lemmy tonight
I do love some man made horrors inside my comprehension.
I don’t know why people are freaking out over this article. It’s pretty well known that lots of animals (especially within their own class) have eggs that can be fertilized by different species. It doesn’t matter like 99.99% of the time because the resulting cell is unviable and will not develop into anything because the merged DNA is incompatible and will fail to generate into a developed organism.
The exception to this are hybrids (like a mule), rare cases where similar enough species can actually create a viable fetus, but the resultant hybrid is usually sterile and unable to reproduce its own offspring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_(biology)
This is something that I would liked to have gone my whole life without knowing about. Thanks for that.
I would like to unlearn this, please.
The Secret of NIMH lore.
Is that how rechargeable AAs are made? 2500 milliamphumsters? 😳
Absolutely cursed.
Also, is the reverse possible?
Omg
That article needs a pronunciation guide. Humm? Hyoom?
I’d pronounce it in English about the same as I pronounce hamster in Estonian. Just based off how it’s written and ignoring how human is pronounced.