Cell Biology

British scientists have discovered a way to turn female bone marrow into sperm. The scientists want to take stem cells from a woman donor's bone marrow and transform them into sperm through the use of special chemicals and vitamins. Through this process it could take out the need of a man for a woman to have a baby.

Scientists come up with new,crazy things every day. This is amazing that they could figure something out like this. I would never imagine this happening. In my opinion I think that it's just a little weird that someone would want to have a baby this way.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-511391/Death-father-British-scientists-discover-turn-womens-bone-marrow-sperm.html

Ecology

Two grad students brought up a video and some samples of a whale skeleton that they found on the bottom of the sea floor. This was the first skeleton of a whale ever to be found on the sea floor that had all the bones there. The team was near the end of a cruise on the coast of California when they found this.

I think this is really cool that they found something on the bottom of the ocean floor for the first time. I was surprised at all the sea creatures that were decomposing the whale. I think that they should be very proud of themselves for finding it.