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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test tube testicles (TTT), maybe the republicans will line up for them, but I doubt it.
This article brings new meaning to growing a pair.
Hah. This research means nothing to me. I already have mouse-sized...oh, wait a minute. Wrong forum.
But WHO will the kids look like? Fauci?
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