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Scientists grew a pair of testicles in a lab — and they offer new hope for male infertility
NY Post ^ | February 20, 2024 | Tracy Swartz

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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To: Twotone

test tube testicles (TTT), maybe the republicans will line up for them, but I doubt it.


41 posted on 02/21/2024 11:04:36 AM PST by euram (allALL)
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To: Twotone

This article brings new meaning to growing a pair.


42 posted on 02/21/2024 11:35:01 AM PST by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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To: Twotone

Hah. This research means nothing to me. I already have mouse-sized...oh, wait a minute. Wrong forum.


43 posted on 02/21/2024 11:36:32 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

"Hah. This research means nothing to me. I already have mouse-sized...oh, wait a minute. Wrong forum."


Yeah, Bill, you're probably looking for the forum that contains this theme song:


      "Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter" - Nina Simone

44 posted on 02/21/2024 11:50:05 AM PST by Songcraft ( )
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To: Twotone
And maybe hope for Republicans!

The ability to grow a pair, and the desire to have a pair and use them, are two very different things.
45 posted on 02/21/2024 11:58:28 AM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Twotone

But WHO will the kids look like? Fauci?


46 posted on 02/21/2024 12:47:41 PM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: kosciusko51
"Gives new meaning to the phrase 'grow a pair.'"

Why stop at two?
47 posted on 02/21/2024 5:12:43 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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