Male infertility: Lab-grown sperms arrive For millions of men, a diagnosis of untreatable infertility has meant the end of the road. Now, researchers have taken a major step towards producing human sperm outside the body Health 27 min ago
But imagine a future where that diagnosis of untreatable male infertility is no longer the end of the road because scientists have found a way to produce human sperm from lab-engineered testicular tissue.
A study published in the journal Cell Stem Cell by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has reported a significant step toward one of reproductive medicine's most elusive goals: producing human sperm outside the human body.
Azoospermia, the complete absence of sperm in semen, affects approximately one per cent of all men and accounts for 10 to 15 per cent of male infertility diagnoses.
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