Researchers grow eggs and sperm
Filed under: Infertility — Alan @ 8:18 am
Researchers have been able to turn stem cells from humans into sperm and egg cells, which have allowed doctors a precious insight into what causes infertility.
New research studies allow scientists to look at how human reproductive cells are developed, from the moment that they first begin embryos on into the time when they become mature eggs and sperm.
Once scientists are able to fully understand how eggs and sperm cells grow they will be better able to develop proper treatments that will aid those who are infertile. In the future, additional research may also allow scientists to develop treatments to correct birth defects that occur before a child is actually born.
Many times men and women are infertile due to genetic glitches that occur early in the reproductive growth cycle. Although this has long been a known fact, it is has been hard to study how this may occur until recently, with the discovery of how to grow stem cells into sperm and egg cells.
Susan Shurin of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development stated that the new achievement is able to shine some light on a stage of human development that was previously hidden and unknown.
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