Article: Fatherless Stem Cells Deliver The Goods One Unfertilized Egg From Single Female Primate Donor Produced Broad Spectrum Of Progeny Cells.(Brief Article)

The paradox of single motherhood is that to become a single mother requires in the first instance a father.

True unisexual reproduction involves the process of parthenogenesis, in which the female reproduces its kind without fecundation by the male. In fact, parthenogenesis derives from the Greek word parthenos, meaning "virgin."

"The parthenogenetic process," observed embryologist Jose Cibelli, leads to stem cells without creating embryos that normally require an egg from the mother and a sperm from the father. Embryonic development is initiated directly from an unfertilized egg."

Cibelli, vice president of research at Advanced Cell Technology ...

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