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Clinical Investigation

Parthenogenesis Scholarly Journal

Parthenogenesis may be a sort of reproduction during which an egg can become an embryo without being fertilized by a sperm. Parthenogenesis springs from the Greek words for “virgin birth,” and variety of other insect species including aphids, bees, and ants are known to breed by parthenogenesis. Recently, parthenogenesis has received considerable attention as a tool for the assembly of stem cells. Human stem cells derived from embryos, fetal primordial germ cells, duct blood, and adult tissues provide potential cell based therapies for repair of degenerating or damaged tissues. Although establishment of vegetative cell lines via parthenogenesis was demonstrated by Kaufman et al.1 Twenty years ago within the mouse model, the pluripotency of the cells and thus the efficacy of their derivatives were poorly explored. The possibility of deriving vegetative cell s from parthenogenetic embryos could eliminate the necessity to provide and destroy viable embryos and will reduce the moral concerns surrounding somatic cell research. Because parthenogenetic stem cells contain only maternal genes, their use of may reduce the occurrence of immune-mediated rejection following graft transplantation. This chapter reviews recent advances in parthenogenesis research and discusses its potential impact on the somatic cell debate. It are often defined because the assembly of an embryo from a female gamete with none genetic contribution from a male gamete, with or without the eventual development into an adult.    

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