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Male factor infertility

: Sperm from cultured stem cells produce fertile offspring

Nature Reviews Urology volume 8, page 532 (2011)Cite this article

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The 'holy grail' of recreating mammalian spermatogenesis in the lab is one step closer to being reached thanks to the pioneering work of a Japanese group.

...[this research] supports the great potential for similar discovery and cellular pathway modeling to be undertaken in our own species

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  1. Hayashi, K. et al. Reconstitution of the mouse germ cell specification pathway in culture by pluripotent stem cells. Cell 146, 519–532 (2011)

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  1. Suzanne J. Farley
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Farley, S. : Sperm from cultured stem cells produce fertile offspring. Nat Rev Urol 8, 532 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2011.140

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