Posted on 02/21/2024 8:06:38 AM PST by Twotone
This is pretty nuts — researchers at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University have grown “laboratory testicles” they hope could eventually ease male infertility, which affects 10% to 15% of American men.
The tiny, artificial organs, produced from cells extracted from mouse testes, are said to resemble the structure and function of natural mouse testicles. The researchers, led by Dr. Nitzan Gonen, are aiming to develop human-like testicles from human stem cells to help treat developmental sex disorders and infertility.
“Fertility clinics are able to identify some of the problems that cause male infertility — a low sperm count or an abnormal structure — but we don’t understand fully what causes this, which genome mutations led to the condition, or what went wrong in the testicle’s functioning, as a result of which the tubes do not carry the sperm well,” Gonen told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz last week.
“Now it will be possible to study these subjects within the system of the model we have produced,” she added.
Biologists have already generated organoids — three-dimensional miniature versions of immature organs — that resemble the brain, kidneys and intestines, from stem cells.
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“laboratory testicles”
Kind of like gas-station sushi. Only different.
“And maybe hope for Republicans!”
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Indeed. Let the jokes write themselves.
I hear that Hillary has placed the first order!
Did they grow them in a lockbox?.......................
They should play AC/DC when they’re growing them.
Gives new meaning to the phrase “grow a pair.”
The research, led by Dr. Missen Gonadz...
“And maybe hope for Republicans!”
damnit, you beat me to it
Also for the young man from Boston who drove around town in an Austin.
Lindsey Graham has 2 sets on order, he needs more help than a pair can provide
I was power skimming headlines and ran through:
“Scientists grew a pair of testicles in a lab — and they offer new hope for male infertility”
“Biden’s USDA uses taxpayer funds to research garbage-fed crickets as ‘sustainable protein source’”
My small monkey brain mashed those together as:
“Scientists grew a pair of testicles in a lab as ‘sustainable protein source’”
The most odd thing was I wasn’t terribly surprised or incredulous.
“And maybe hope for Republicans!”
Not until they can grow a spine in the lab...
Sheep relieved.
And now we finally understand how Stuart Little came into the world.
Waiting for a woman “transitioning” to be a male sues to have this done.
Stand back, the memes are going start coming fast and furiously!🤣🔥💯
They’re balls, not spines. LOL
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