{"id":140210,"date":"2022-06-06T19:05:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T00:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/lab-generated-sperm-created-at-israeli-university"},"modified":"2022-06-06T19:05:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T00:05:34","slug":"lab-generated-sperm-created-at-israeli-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/lab-generated-sperm-created-at-israeli-university","title":{"rendered":"Lab-generated sperm created at Israeli university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-generated-sperm-created-at-israeli-university.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers built a 3D model and tested it on young mice who were not yet capable of producing sperm \u2013 and after 5\u20137 weeks, sperm cells in the process of developing were discovered in the model, marking the success of the experiment.<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"blockquote_cite_cd9f852a-5cab-0374-8465-26371642f3d9\" class=\"aligncenter\"><p><b>\u201cThis system may also serve as an innovative platform for examining the effect of drugs and toxins on male fertility\u201d <\/b>Prof. Mahmoud Huleihel, BGU\u2019s Faculty of Health Sciences<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis study opens up a new horizon in the process of creating sperm cells in a culture,\u201d says study co-author Prof. Mahmoud Huleihel from BGU\u2019s Faculty of Health Sciences. \u201cIt enables the implementation of microfluidic-based technologies in future therapeutic strategies for infertile men and in the preservation of fertility for children undergoing aggressive chemotherapy\/radiotherapy treatments that may impair their fertility in puberty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers built a 3D model and tested it on young mice who were not yet capable of producing sperm \u2013 and after 5\u20137 weeks, sperm cells in the process of developing were discovered in the model, marking the success of the experiment. \u201cThis system may also serve as an innovative platform for examining the effect [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140210","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=140210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}