Jul 14, 2020
Lab-grown sperm could let infertile men have gene-edited children
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
The first reliable way of isolating sperm stem cells from the testes and growing them outside the body could help infertile men have genetic children of their own.
A few teams have claimed to have isolated sperm stem cells before, but haven’t been able to repeat the results. “The general feeling is that there is no reliable method,” says Miles Wilkinson at the University of California, San Diego.