{"id":243766,"date":"2026-09-08T01:48:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/ubc-scientists-discover-how-to-3d-print-testicular-cells"},"modified":"2026-09-08T01:48:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:48:54","slug":"ubc-scientists-discover-how-to-3d-print-testicular-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/ubc-scientists-discover-how-to-3d-print-testicular-cells","title":{"rendered":"UBC scientists discover how to 3D print testicular cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ubc-scientists-discover-how-to-3d-print-testicular-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a pair of world firsts, UBC scientists have 3D printed human testicular cells and identified promising early signs of sperm-producing capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, led by UBC urology assistant professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prostatecentre.com\/about-us\/people\/dr-ryan-flannigan\">Dr. Ryan Flannigan<\/a>, hope the technique will one day offer a solution for people living with presently untreatable forms of male infertility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInfertility affects 15 per cent of couples and male factors are a contributing cause in at least half those cases,\u201d said Dr. Flannigan, whose lab is based at the Vancouver Prostate Centre at Vancouver General Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a pair of world firsts, UBC scientists have 3D printed human testicular cells and identified promising early signs of sperm-producing capabilities. The researchers, led by UBC urology assistant professor Dr. Ryan Flannigan, hope the technique will one day offer a solution for people living with presently untreatable forms of male infertility. \u201cInfertility affects 15 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243766","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=243766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}