PEARLS AND ROSES: Bone Stem Cells Turned into Primitive Sperm Cells!

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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Bone Stem Cells Turned into Primitive Sperm Cells!

Researchers have taken the first step towards developing artificial sperm cells. Researchers have turned bone marrow tissue into primitive sperm cells! If these precursor cells can be coaxed into becoming functioning sperm cells, it would allow infertile men to father their own children---EVEN allow women to produce their own sperm!!! Click here for the whole story http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1601-bone-stem-cells-turned-into-primitive-sperm-cells.html