"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Life Imitates the Weekly World News: Thought that this sort of thing only happend in tabloid land:
Gleicher and colleagues took cells from 3-day-old male embryos and inserted them into 21 female embryos at the same stage of development.
The resulting embryo was part male, part female and could potentially have developed into an apparently healthy fetus, the London Telegraph reported Thursday.
Gleicher said the research could lead treatment for genetic diseases but mainstream scientists said the research was pointless and could endanger the reputation of serious embryo research.