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Male Fertility Can Be Restored After Cancer Treatment

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Asif.Hossain:
Male Fertility Can Be Restored After Cancer Treatment, Researchers Find

An injection of banked sperm-producing stem cells can restore fertility to male primates who become sterile due to cancer drug side effects, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Magee-Womens Research Institute. In their animal study published Nov 1, previously frozen stem cells restored production of sperm that successfully fertilized eggs to produce early embryos. More info: http://bit.ly/SzFjHH
Image: colored SEM of sperm fertilising an egg Credit: D. Phillips/Science Photo Library

shimo:
Good post.

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