Would it be possible to take the genes from one persons egg and the genes from another persons egg and put them into a stem cell and make a baby that had two biological mothers, or do it with two sperm cells?
2007-05-29 08:44:46 · 9 answers · asked by bexdonnelly 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I forgot to say take out the nuceus of the stem cell, thatnks for pointing that out.
2007-05-29 22:42:55 · update #1
This has pretty much been done, not in a stem cell, but you can combine the DNA from 2 eggs to make a baby. Men didn't like that because it basically makes them useless and all offspring would be female (XX) as no Y chromosomes would be involved. There is also research on doing it with sperm, it's more complicated because it would have to be an X and a Y sperm, then the genetic material transferred to an egg as sperm have very few mitochondria. Stem cells are different, the idea of this would be to stimulate a stem cell from a person to multiply and create a baby which would be genetically identical to the parent (a clone).
2007-05-31 23:08:19 · answer #1 · answered by Dizbutt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In theory, it might be possible, if at least one of the sperm cells was an X-bearing sperm. Humans have to have at least 1 X chromosome, and only half of the sperm cells have an X (the other half has a Y chromosome).
There are all sorts of problems (ignoring the ethical issues) in doing this, that relate to "genetic imprinting", but if you could overcome those problems, it should be possible.
Oh...You'd have to take out the nucleus of the stem cell before you tried this, but that's not a real problem to do...
2007-05-29 08:50:27 · answer #2 · answered by hcbiochem 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It seems possible and that's what they do for cloning, as long as they take out the cell nucleus beforehand. But they don't do it with two mothers, although I'm not sure why it wouldn't work. It could also be a way of seeing what would happen if someone had 2 y chromosomes
2007-05-29 08:50:53 · answer #3 · answered by MLBfreek35 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you could recombine the genes from both mothers and mix their mitochondria (for this you need to take off the mitochondria from the stem cell as well) because this DNA is inherited through the cytoplasm.
2007-05-31 08:52:58 · answer #4 · answered by Lara Croft 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
present genetic engineering is aimed at manuplatin Genes in many ways. Some success has been achieved in this direction, but still the techniques are on experimental basis. In this context, the answer to you question is in negative but be sure in the forth coming years you would hear that gene manuplation is done to the extent where genome of the babies would be altered as desired by their parents.
2007-06-01 05:25:53 · answer #5 · answered by Janu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because the stem cells have genes of their own, and if you add more genes to those, there will be too many genes and the baby will die.
2007-05-29 08:48:05 · answer #6 · answered by Wires77 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
stem cells would have a diploid number and then youre adding two different haploid set of genes so there would be too many to mature
2007-05-29 22:34:20 · answer #7 · answered by ~*tigger*~ ** 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not possible stem celllllls have their own i mean no place left to insert welllll if u remove some genes and then insert gosh its leborious process
2007-06-05 02:01:33 · answer #8 · answered by gayatri r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,
2007-06-06 03:40:42 · answer #9 · answered by parisa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋