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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, January 28, 1992                   TAG: 9201280250
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: DENVER                                LENGTH: Short

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SCIENTISTS: DEAD SPERM CAN CREATE LIVE OFFSPRING

In research that seems to blur the line between fact and fiction, scientists have discovered it is possible to use dead sperm to create live offspring.

Such experiments are fundamentally changing the definition of "fertility." The new technology means that in some cases - where reproduction was not possible - healthy offspring now can be born.

According to reproductive physiologist Kazufumi Goto of Kagoshima University in Japan, his experiments have succeeded in producing live, normal calves by injecting single, dead sperm cells directly into mature eggs. - Newsday

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