is it possible to combine two womens eggs and then fertilize it with sperm?
2006-07-24 19:42:32 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
If you're asking if two women can have a child that is biologically theirs, the answer from a scientific standpoint is yes. The process would be delicate and complicated, but they could, potentially, take the dna from one egg and implant it into the other to form a complete set of dna. The process, I imagine, would be similar to cloning, which is of course possible.
2006-07-24 21:38:23 · answer #1 · answered by desiderio 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There's been a bit of speculation about this, and the thought is that, in theory, it's possible. It would take a process similar to cloning, only they leave the genetic material in one egg then fertilize with the genetic material in the other egg. Using sperm, however, are not in the equation. You don't need the sperm itself to fertilize the egg, you just need a full set of DNA. This would be a lengthy and dangerous process, though, and thus far no woman has given birth from an egg using this technique.
2006-07-25 04:37:38 · answer #2 · answered by criticalcatalyst 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe a while back (couple of years ago) that this happened. However the baby was never born. But they did fertilize with two eggs
2006-07-25 02:50:03 · answer #3 · answered by Matthew R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but what IS possible is to take one woman's egg, fertalize it with a mans sperm, and implant it into the OTHER womans body. That way both women would have legal custody of the child.
2006-07-25 03:11:08 · answer #4 · answered by leavethis2yesterday 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have not heard of anything like that... but it might be preferable that each one of them have a baby from the same man - at least the kids still have the something common in their genes...
2006-07-25 02:47:36 · answer #5 · answered by boo0726 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well doesn't sound logical and hw will the baby know whose the mother.
2006-07-25 02:45:57 · answer #6 · answered by Young 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
with so many man why two women have a baby? that's boring and dumb.
2006-07-25 02:50:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Ask a scientist.
2006-07-25 02:46:30 · answer #8 · answered by nonconformiststraightguy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That doesn't sound very likely to happen.
2006-07-25 02:47:37 · answer #9 · answered by melissa j 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think so. But I truthful don't know
2006-07-25 03:00:53 · answer #10 · answered by shadowkiss19 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋