{"id":118026,"date":"2021-01-04T04:01:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T12:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/for-the-first-time-scientists-grow-human-sperm-stem-cells-in-lab"},"modified":"2021-01-04T04:01:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T12:01:55","slug":"for-the-first-time-scientists-grow-human-sperm-stem-cells-in-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/for-the-first-time-scientists-grow-human-sperm-stem-cells-in-lab","title":{"rendered":"For the First Time, Scientists Grow Human Sperm Stem Cells in Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-scientists-grow-human-sperm-stem-cells-in-lab.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We think our approach \u2014 which is backed up by several techniques, including single-cell RNA-sequencing analysis \u2014 is a significant step toward bringing SSC therapy into the clinic, Miles Wilkinson, an obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences researcher at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-07-human-sperm-stem-cells-grown.html\">said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SSCs can generate more stem cells and as many as 1, 000 sperm every couple of seconds \u2014 but until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2020\/07\/10\/2000362117\">this new study<\/a>, published Monday in the journal <em>PNAS<\/em>, scientists were unable to differentiate and isolate SSCs from other, similar cells in the testicles.<\/p>\n<p>Next, our main goal is to learn how to maintain and expand human SSCs longer so they might be clinically useful, Wilkinson said in the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We think our approach \u2014 which is backed up by several techniques, including single-cell RNA-sequencing analysis \u2014 is a significant step toward bringing SSC therapy into the clinic, Miles Wilkinson, an obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences researcher at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, said in a press release. SSCs can generate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}