ovular merging

[Barbara DesMarais]

In "Reweaving the Web of Life" (1982), Sally Miller Gearhart has an
essay entitled "The Future - If There Is One - Is Female." In it she
writes about ovular merging (the mating of two eggs). She said in
1979 Pierre Soupart conducted successful ovular merging experiments
with mice at Vanderbilt and that human females were volunteering for
experimentation.

Anyway, I'm wondering whatever has happened with this experimentation.
Does anyone know where information might be published? Has it been
done successfully with humans? If so, where, etc?

Any information or references would be appreciated.

Thanks.

-Barbara

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[skla...@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu]

In article: <930331232...@jupiter.Eng.Sun.COM>
bar...@jupiter.eng.sun.COM (Barbara DesMarais) writes:

>In "Reweaving the Web of Life" (1982), Sally Miller Gearhart has an
>essay entitled "The Future - If There Is One - Is Female." In it she
>writes about ovular merging (the mating of two eggs). She said in
>1979 Pierre Soupart conducted successful ovular merging experiments
>with mice at Vanderbilt and that human females were volunteering for
>experimentation.

>Anyway, I'm wondering whatever has happened with this experimentation.
>Does anyone know where information might be published? Has it been
>done successfully with humans? If so, where, etc?

>Any information or references would be appreciated.

"Merging" two human eggs and implanting it in a woman's uterus is
probably not allowable under the ethics rules for human
experimentation. It was hard enough for an institute to get their
protocols approved that allowed injection of genetically engineered
cells in terminal patients much less "merging" human eggs for
implantation.

While we're talking about this kind of molecular manipulation
(way in the future mind you) we might as well consider the
possibility of replacing the DNA from an egg with that of a sperm
then fertilizing the egg with another sperm. The future will
definitely will be wild.

Steve SKLA...@VAXA.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU