{"id":26997,"date":"2016-06-17T12:48:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T19:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/lab-grown-sperm-makes-healthy-offspring"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:55:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:55:44","slug":"lab-grown-sperm-makes-healthy-offspring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/lab-grown-sperm-makes-healthy-offspring","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown sperm makes healthy offspring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-grown-sperm-makes-healthy-offspring.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sperm have been made in the laboratory and used to father healthy baby mice in a pioneering move that could lead to infertility treatments.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese research took a stem cell, converted it into primitive sperm and fertilised an egg to produce healthy pups.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-stem-cell\/fulltext\/S1934-5909(16)00018-7\" class=\"\">in the Journal Cell Stem Cell<\/a>, showed they were all healthy and grew up to have offspring of their own.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-35658650\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-35658650<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sperm have been made in the laboratory and used to father healthy baby mice in a pioneering move that could lead to infertility treatments. The Chinese research took a stem cell, converted it into primitive sperm and fertilised an egg to produce healthy pups. The study, in the Journal Cell Stem Cell, showed they were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26997","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\/26997","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67166,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26997\/revisions\/67166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}